Make-a-thon
Registration for the 2020 Make-a-thon
Official Team Registration: Thursday, November 7, 2019 @ 9pm
Team Building Spreadsheet: https://tinyurl.com/MakeaThon2020-TeamBuilding
Team Building Spreadsheet: https://tinyurl.com/MakeaThon2020-TeamBuilding
For the past five years, BMES at UC Davis has held an annual Make-a-Thon. Similar to a Hack-a-Thon, the Make-a-Thon is a competition in which participants have 48 hours to design and prototype a medical device that solves a real-world clinical or medical problem.
The Make-a-Thon aims to provide engineering students with a hands-on experience using CAD and the design process in preparation for their capstone senior design project. Students will have the opportunity to prototype their device using the Translating Engineering Advances to Medicine (T.E.A.M.) Prototyping and Design Lab at UC Davis. Utilizing rapid prototyping techniques such as 3D printing and laser cutting, the teams will work to turn their designs into a functional device.
In the past, we have created a skin biopsy tool for procuring tissue samples from the wings of bats (currently being used by UC Davis Veterinarians), a low cost, modular, adjustable pair of eyeglass frames for economically disadvantaged communities, and a device that utilizes a person’s smartphone as an ophthalmoscope in order to record and capture images of patients’ retinas. Most recently, the prompt from the UC Davis Eye Health Center was to create a device that helped patients with low mobility or dexterity dispense daily eye drops.
The 2020 T.E.A.M. Make-a-Thon will take place on January 17-19th, 2020.
Team registration opens on Thursday, November 7, 2019 @ 9pm, so start assembling your teams! Every team needs 5 students total; at least two underclassmen and two upperclassmen. Be sure to come out to the Make-a-Thon social we have coming up on Thursday, November 7, 2019 from 8-9pm in Roessler 66, where you can meet other students and form teams. Also, attend the CAD workshop on Friday, November 8, 2019 from 12-2pm in Academic Surge 1044 . If you can't find a team or are unable to make it to the social, here's a spreadsheet to match you with other interested students: https://tinyurl.com/MakeaThon2020-TeamBuilding
Upcoming Events:
Team Building Social – Thursday, November 7th, 8-9pm, Roessler 66
Registration Opens – Thursday, November 7th, 9pm
CAD Workshop – Friday, November 8th, 12-2pm, Academic Surge 1044
Cost:
$30 for UC Davis BMES members
$35 for non-UC Davis BMES students
*Local UC Davis BMES membership is $15. Membership forms can be found at http://www.ucdbmes.com/membership and can be turned into any BMES officer.
*The cost of the Make-a-Thon includes all meals on Saturday and Sunday and a Make-a-Thon t-shirt.
Stay updated on new announcements and information on this year's Make-a-Thon through this Facebook page and our website.
Registration Information/Requirements:
We look forward to hosting this year's competition and hope that you will be able to participate!
Please let us know if you have any questions by posting in the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/473191469956735/
The Make-a-Thon has been featured in Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/students-engineer-help-bats-fighting-white-nose-syndrome.
Here's an example of how the T.E.A.M. Lab has helped surgeons: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/healthy-choices/article68641512.html
The Make-a-Thon aims to provide engineering students with a hands-on experience using CAD and the design process in preparation for their capstone senior design project. Students will have the opportunity to prototype their device using the Translating Engineering Advances to Medicine (T.E.A.M.) Prototyping and Design Lab at UC Davis. Utilizing rapid prototyping techniques such as 3D printing and laser cutting, the teams will work to turn their designs into a functional device.
In the past, we have created a skin biopsy tool for procuring tissue samples from the wings of bats (currently being used by UC Davis Veterinarians), a low cost, modular, adjustable pair of eyeglass frames for economically disadvantaged communities, and a device that utilizes a person’s smartphone as an ophthalmoscope in order to record and capture images of patients’ retinas. Most recently, the prompt from the UC Davis Eye Health Center was to create a device that helped patients with low mobility or dexterity dispense daily eye drops.
The 2020 T.E.A.M. Make-a-Thon will take place on January 17-19th, 2020.
Team registration opens on Thursday, November 7, 2019 @ 9pm, so start assembling your teams! Every team needs 5 students total; at least two underclassmen and two upperclassmen. Be sure to come out to the Make-a-Thon social we have coming up on Thursday, November 7, 2019 from 8-9pm in Roessler 66, where you can meet other students and form teams. Also, attend the CAD workshop on Friday, November 8, 2019 from 12-2pm in Academic Surge 1044 . If you can't find a team or are unable to make it to the social, here's a spreadsheet to match you with other interested students: https://tinyurl.com/MakeaThon2020-TeamBuilding
Upcoming Events:
Team Building Social – Thursday, November 7th, 8-9pm, Roessler 66
Registration Opens – Thursday, November 7th, 9pm
CAD Workshop – Friday, November 8th, 12-2pm, Academic Surge 1044
Cost:
$30 for UC Davis BMES members
$35 for non-UC Davis BMES students
*Local UC Davis BMES membership is $15. Membership forms can be found at http://www.ucdbmes.com/membership and can be turned into any BMES officer.
*The cost of the Make-a-Thon includes all meals on Saturday and Sunday and a Make-a-Thon t-shirt.
Stay updated on new announcements and information on this year's Make-a-Thon through this Facebook page and our website.
Registration Information/Requirements:
- 15 teams can participate in the Make-a-Thon
- Teams must have five people and meet the requirements of at least 2 freshmen/sophomores and at least 2 juniors/seniors
- Once we receive your submission, you will be contacted on how to submit your payments. We take both cash and Venmo.
- Once your team is contacted, you have three days to submit your payments before you lose your spot.
- Teams will be accepted on a rolling basis BASED ON PAYMENTS! This means that your team won't be secured a spot until all team members' payments have been accounted for.
- Once payments are received and your team's spot is secured, there are NO REFUNDS.
- If you do not have a team but are still interested in participating in the Make-a-Thon, you can ask to be put on the single person waitlist. Individuals on the list will be grouped together in teams of 5 if there is space after team registration concludes.
- Non-UC Davis students: Please contact us if you’re interested in the event! We understand that it is more difficult for you to get funding to come to the Make-a-Thon and may not be able to register immediately. If you contact us, we may be able to save your team a spot in the Make-a-Thon.
We look forward to hosting this year's competition and hope that you will be able to participate!
Please let us know if you have any questions by posting in the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/473191469956735/
The Make-a-Thon has been featured in Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/students-engineer-help-bats-fighting-white-nose-syndrome.
Here's an example of how the T.E.A.M. Lab has helped surgeons: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/healthy-choices/article68641512.html
Another successful Make-A-Thon! Thank to all of the participants, judges, mentors, volunteers, Make-a-Thon board, and BMES officers! Congratulations to all of our competing teams for their stellar designs and creativity!
This year the prompt was to create an assistive device to help patients with physical limitations open "push-and-twist" or “child-resistant” medicine bottles.
This year the prompt was to create an assistive device to help patients with physical limitations open "push-and-twist" or “child-resistant” medicine bottles.
make-a-thon 2017
Thank you to all of our judges, mentors, participants, and BMES officers for making the 2017 Make-a-Thon a success!
