We know the winners of DemoDay as part of the Tech-Athon 2023 competition!

The public presentation of the demonstrators prepared by the finalists of Tech-Athon 2023 took place on 11 June 2024 at the Centre for Advanced Materials and Technologies CEZAMAT of the Warsaw University of Technology. Tech-Athon is an event during teams, consisting of PhD students from the Warsaw University of Technology and invited guests, develop concepts for innovative technological solutions with implementation potential, then consult their ideas with mentors and present them in the form of pitching in front of a competition jury during the finals.

The finalists, with funding from the ‘Excellence Initiative – Research University’ programme, carry out research and development work on these projects in order to present the demonstrator to the public at the DemoDay event the following year.

One of the five!

Five concepts were presented during DemoDay: the design of a myoelectric prosthetic hand that can ‘grow’ with the child (3D Hand team), a solution to shorten the rehabilitation period after a limb fracture through the use of printed electrostimulation layers (PulseLayers team), the design of a novel system for e-fuel synthesis (Hydrogenius team), a tool to support cancer treatment through personalised CAR-T therapy (QPI4MED team) and a project using simple tools and gamification to aid respiratory therapy (pd meds team).

Each team had 10 minutes to present their project and then the jury asked questions of the participants. Presentations were assessed for innovation, implementation potential, quality of diagnosis and problem definition, and interdisciplinarity.

The jury, composed of Prof. Mariusz Malinowski, Vice-Chancellor for Science (chairman of the jury), Prof. Zbigniew Brzózka, Elżbieta Malinowska, Prof. Bartłomiej Ufnalski, decided to award the pd meds team.

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