Bright Ideas competition at HealthTech Week
At our Aotearoa Brain Project day during the Healthtech week conference, we challenged our attendees to meet someone new, and to find some common ground as the basis for a collaborative ‘Bright Idea’ project. We had some fantastic entries, ranging from app design, to VR rehabilitation technology, to high school outreach.
Our judges had the tough job of selecting just two winning groups, who will each receive $1000 to help turn their Bright Idea into reality!
The winning Bright Ideas and their creators were:
A low-cost, patient-friendly rehabilitation platform for diagnosing and treating swallowing disorders, using mobile phone image processing for biofeedback, by Nikyta Chesney (UOO), Hamid Abbasi (UOA) and The Rose Centre for Stroke Recovery and Research (UC)
An online platform to continue the relationship between researchers at University centres and students in the Bachelor of Nursing Maaori at the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT), by Charlene Vave (MIT), Zanna Dunn (MIT), Haruna Suzuki-Kerr (UoA), Vanshika Chinchalkar (UoA), Po-Yi Lue (UoA), and Samaneh Madanian (AUT)
