Have you ever experienced frustration with healthcare-related issues and thought there must be a better way? Illinois residents are invited to submit their idea for improving human health to the third annual Health Make-a-Thon competition. The 10 best ideas each will be supported with $10,000 in resources, materials, and mentorship. This includes access to the [...]

By Joy Chen, Kavya Sudhir and Huan Song The Health-Make-a-Thon is an annual startup competition hosted by the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the first engineering-based college of medicine in the world. Makers from across the state of Illinois pitched their ideas with the goal of democratizing health innovation to improve the world's well-being. Ten [...]

Ten winning teams from Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s second-annual Health Make-a-Thon competition each will receive $10,000 in resources, materials, and mentorship, and access to UIUC’s Health Maker Lab network of design and making facilities to design, fabricate and prototype their ideas. Students, healthcare practitioners and citizen-scientists from 16 Illinois counties pitched their ideas for [...]

The Carle Illinois College of Medicine will host its second-annual Health Make-a-Thon competition on Saturday, August 8, from 2-5 p.m. The online event is open to the public. Twenty teams of citizen-scientists, students, healthcare practitioners from across the state of Illinois will pitch their ideas for improving health. Ten winning teams will be selected, with each [...]