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We're proud to announce our Fall 2024 NextGen cohort! Our NextGen program is a hands-on engineering program for students in Alabama. This cohort is working on three medtech protoypes: NephSol A 4-person NextGen intern team will work with the 2024 Alabama Launchpad Cycle 2 Concept Stage winner NephSol Inc to further develop their product concept. Accessirise Originally provided by Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, this project is a continuation of prototype development started by the Summer 2024 NextGen cohort. The 3-person team (which includes 2 members of the original Accessirise team) will continue development on the portable wheelchair ramp prototype to further address customers’ wants and needs of the product. Endoswipe This project started as a class project for two UAB students, both of whom are part of the Fall 2024 NextGen cohort. The 3-person NextGen project team (including the two who originated the project) will continue development of the concept prototype that is intended to aid medical providers in making endoscopy procedures more efficient and safer for patients. The Fall 2024 NextGen cohort is comprised of the following students: Anurag Bhattarai – Biomedical Engineering (BME) Nathan Branch – Entrepreneurship Julia Fromm – BME Nicholas Garrett – Electrical Engineering Brianna Green – BME Annabel Johnson – BME Tahli King – Mechanical Engineering (She changed majors this semester) Jadarius Lewis – BME Bhumi Patel – BME Ann Varghese - BME

❝The Hardware Park NextGen students ended up building our sensors from scratch which we had on the long-term road map ... being able to see them do that in such a short time has been incredible.❞ - Olivia Bruno One of our fall NextGen teams worked with the 2024 Alabama Launchpad Cycle 2 Concept Stage winner NephSol Inc to further develop their product concept. The students: Anurag Bhattarai Nicholas Garrett Jadarius Lewis Ann Varghese Thanks for the write up Harper Harwell!

⏰ Today is the day! Our NextGen Fall Expo is from 3:30 - 5:00pm at Hardware Park. Our talented fall NextGen cohort will present medical device prototypes designed to tackle real-world health challenges. Use the link to sign up. We hope to see you here!

We 🩷 seeing NextGen prototypes in action! Our "Accessirise" NextGen team met with Christen John Mendonca PhD, CSCS from the Lakeshore Foundation to demo their portable wheelchair ramp. Watch the video to see how it went. Thanks so much for your time, Christen 🙏 Shoutout to Bhumi Patel, Tahli King, and Nathan Branch for the incredible prototype. Come check out the prototypes this Thursday afternoon at the Fall NextGen Expo (3:30-5:00pm).

🧐 Don't you just hate when your endoscope gets foggy? NOT ANYMORE! Introducing the Endoswipe: a windshield wiper for the endoscope. This prototype started as a class project for Brianna Green and Annabel Johnson, both of whom are part of the Fall 2024 NextGen cohort. They teamed up with Julia Fromm, also in the Fall 2024 NextGen cohort, to make endoscopy procedures more efficient and safer for patients. Learn more at our Fall Expo, November 21st from 3:30 - 5:00 PM.

🚀 Our Fall NextGen Expo is Less Than Two Weeks Away! 🚀 Join us on November 21st from 3:30 - 5:00 PM to explore cutting-edge medtech prototypes from our talented NextGen cohort. Free entry—sign up now to secure your spot! Here’s a sneak peek at the projects they’re bringing to life: 🔹 Endoswipe This NextGen team is developing a "windshield wiper for endoscopes." 🔹 Accessirise Originally a concept provided by Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, this NextGen team has developed a portable wheelchair ramp prototype. 🔹 NephSol Our 4-person NextGen team has been working with the 2024 Alabama Launchpad Cycle 2 Concept Stage winner NephSol Inc to further develop their product concept. The Fall 2024 NextGen cohort is comprised of the following students: Anurag Bhattarai – Biomedical Engineering (BME) Nathan Branch – Entrepreneurship Julia Fromm – BME Nicholas Garrett – Electrical Engineering Brianna Green – BME Annabel Johnson – BME Tahli King – Mechanical Engineering Jadarius Lewis – BME Bhumi Patel – BME Ann Varghese - BME Mark Conner, D.J. Strickland, PE, Derrick Austin, Neil Adams, UAB School of Engineering

We hosted another Birmingham AI's Engineering meetup last night. Yashwanth Mamidi did a fantastic job presenting! You could say it was a smash thanks to Yash 😅 Also, lookout for FlowiseAI (YC S23), a low-code solution for building AI chat agents. They're going to be a big deal!

We're looking forward to hosting Birmingham AI's next Engineering Meet-up. The meet-up is this Thursday, September 19 from 6 - 7:30pm CDT. https://lnkd.in/ggzGHiwY

🎥 Here's our Summer 2024 NextGen Cohort recap video! This summer, 10 talented student interns tackled hardware prototypes in assistive technology, with guidance from the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services and other partners. A special thanks to Innovate Alabama for sponsoring our NextGen programming. #STEM #Internships #assistivetechnology

♿ Join us for an Assistive Technology Expo tomorrow (8/1) from 3:30-5:00 PM! Watch as some of the state's brightest young engineers show off their assistive hardware prototypes. Our Summer NextGen cohort collaborated with the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services and others to create these amazing hardware prototypes. Check out this video where Bhumi Patel a senior at UAB, demonstrates her team's mobile wheelchair ramp.