2024 Bootcamp Activities

Activities Heading link


Mentor clinics Wed-Fri. We are extremely grateful to our mentors this year: Barbara Di Eugenio, Spyros Kitsiou, and James Patton. The mentors help each team sharpen the focus of their aims, suggest new directions and opportunities, point out unusual resources, and provide steady support and encouragement.
We are grateful to our awesome guest speakers: Abigail Goben (in the photo), Kal Pasupathy, Sanjib Basu, Spyros Kitsiou, Becky Milczarek, Sneha Tigala, Mike Papka, Himanshu Sharma, Andy Boyd, and Liz Marai, who covered a wide range of topics, from grant writing tips to team science.

Pitch presentation from the Nanomolecules interdisciplinary group, with a wound dressing prop being passed around the audience (Thursday). The group just found an awesome application for their work.

Pitch presentation from the Psych4All interdisciplinary group, emphasizing significance and innovation (Thursday). The scope will be further narrowed down.
The bootcamp participants give awesome and constructive feedback after each pitch.

Pitch presentation from the Pigeons interdisciplinary group, emphasizing the problem they are trying to address (Wednesday). A pharmacist and a family care practitioner tag-team for the presentation.

The CardioReact interdisciplinary group just found their tag name (Wednesday).

With feedback from their peers, the EquTrial group just found the type of clinical trial enrollment they would like to target (Wednesday).
The Heatwave group pitches their idea and asks the group for guidance with respect to the possible medical application.

Closing session for the ATG group: write a take home message, crumple it, through it in the air (snowball storm ensues). (Tuesday).

The Nanomolecules group is brainstorming (Tuesday)

Synthesis of feedback from peers (Tuesday).

Conceptualization and team re-assignments (Tuesday).

Ideation and team formation (Monday).

Summarizing an idea pitched by someone else (Monday).

Ideation and figuring out the merits of each idea (Monday).

Participant discussion of a potentially cool idea.
Getting aquainted via a prop with the data of a different group.