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Deadline is March 10, 2017.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have questions:
nabgilby@umich.eduDETAILS:
UM Lenovo + HealthDesignBy.Us Innovation Co+Lab Summer Fellowships:
Learn and apply mobile technology, including AR/VR, to health and wellness challenges
See an example video of how you could make an immediate impact on children at Mott Hospital with AR/VR content:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiYa6jeSKGk&feature=youtu.beThe Lenovo + HealthDesignBy.Us Innovation Co+Lab is excited to sponsor summer fellowships for innovators interested in working on projects focused on health, design, and technology. An emphasis, but not a requirement, is on projects that use mobile technology and sensors including AR/VR.
For 2017, we are looking for both student innovators with particular development and design skills to work on existing projects and we are looking for student innovators who have their own patient-centered project/idea. Projects using mobile sensors, AR/VR are encouraged but other well-planned, patient-centered projects will be considered.
Fellowships include a $3,000 living stipend, (paid in monthly $1k installments) to spend 3months in Ann Arbor this summer 3-month commitment to work at least 24 hours per week on the project. All projects will work in a strict Agile/Extreme Programming (XP) framework with sprints, standups and end of sprint demos guided by a certified Agile Scrum master. If you don't know what this is, we will teach you!
In addition to the stipend, the fellowship includes:
• Daily one-on-one mentoring
• Access to AR/VR technology including Lenovo the Phab2Pro - the first Google Tango Phone, Microsoft HoloLens,HTC Vive and Oculus Rift
• Training in programming for AR/VR technologies
• Training in real world, agile software development methodologies, including the Scrum framework
• Access to mentors and experts from Lenovo, UM Hospital, high tech entrepreneurs and game development
• Centrally located collaborative workspace with unlimited coffee and popcorn
• Access to patient audience for product testing/user testing
• Membership to the maker health community on campus
Eligibility:
• UofM student or recent graduate (UofM Ann Arbor, Flint and Deaborn)
• Washtenaw Community College students
• Other students from local Michigan colleges and universities if you are able to work onsite in Ann Arbor
• Required minimum of 24 hours of work per week in the Co+Lab space or in Mott Children's hospital
• Interest in working on a patient-centered project AND/OR some experience in programming(Unity development in C#) to apply to existing projects
• Demonstrated passion for learning and making
• Open to all UM students, including UM Dearborn and UM Flint, and recent graduates
Application Timeline:
• The application will be open from Monday, February 20 - March, 10, 2017
• Finalists we be notified Wed, March 15, 2017
• Finalist interviews will be scheduled for the week of March 20, 2017
• Final decisions will be made by Wed March 29, 2017
For those not selected for summer fellowships, you are welcome to attend open AR/VRworkshops and office hours throughout the summer. We plan to offer the fellowships again the summer of 2018.
Sponsored and supported by Lenovo and the HealthDesignBy.Us Innovation Co+Lab at the University of Michigan, School of Information, UMSI Ehrenberg Entrepreneurship Program and the University of Michigan Health System, GameStart, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
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