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Cambridge Festival competition winners announced!
At the recent Institute for Manufacturing open day at the Cambridge Festival, hundreds of visitors were treated to demonstrations of technology in practise. IfM scientists demonstrated their latest research on drug delivery to the brain, and the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring team shared some of their low-cost, low-risk digital solutions. Visitors were invited to…
i-Teams launches in Nairobi
In collaboration with the Centre for Global Equality (CGE), we are delighted to announce the start of the first Nairobi i-Teams programme in collaboration with Strathmore University in Nairobi. Three multi-disciplinary teams of students will meet weekly to investigate the commercial opportunities in Kenya for three new technologies. Two are from leading ventures in the…
i-Teams referenced in the House of Lords
Baroness Coussins, Co-Chair of the APPG on Modern Languages and Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, spoke today about the necessity for language skills to be considered as part of the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill. As part of her speech she cited three Cambridge-based technology organisations, Viridian Solar, Alchemie, and the i-Teams innovation…
myICUvoice – scaling in a pandemic
Author: Nadya Pohran Website: myICUvoice In 2018 I applied for the Medical i-Teams programme while doing my PhD at the University of Cambridge because I wanted to participate in a project called myICUvoice. myICUvoice is a communication tool designed specifically for mechanically-ventilated patients (who cannot verbally-speak) and their nurses. I am an anthropologist and I…
i-Teams goes EPIC!
Dr. Simon Pulman-Jones, a regular i-Teams mentor and lecturer for our Design Thinking workshop, presented a paper on i-Teams together with Amy Weatherup at the EPIC 2019 conference in Providence, Rhode Island. The paper, From ‘Cool Science’ to Changing the World: the Opportunity to Support Pre-startup Science Commercialisation Through Ethnography and Human-Centred Design (authors: Dr.…
Using Science and Engineering to Change the World
Winners announced for the i-Teams What Would You Use THAT For? competition at the Science Festival Young science and engineering enthusiasts thronged into the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) on the West Cambridge site on the last Saturday in March, experiencing the IfM in Virtual Reality, having their pictures etched in metal by lasers, and learning…
Visions of the Future – Winners announced for the i-Teams
April 3rd 2018 Budding young engineers and scientists were treated to a plethora of exhibits at the West Cambridge site on the last Saturday in March. Visitors to the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) had their photos etched into metal by a laser, watched robots playing golf, explored the world through a microscope , and experienced…
i-Teams wins the 3rd Innovative Youth Incubator Awards
Zurina Moktar presented as part of the global 3rd Innovative Youth Incubator Awards in Washington DC, competing against finalists from the Netherlands, Canada, Kenya and South Africa. The conference was the 6th International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2018 (ICIE) organised by the University of the District of Columbia, Georgetown University and George Washington University.…
Congratulations to the winners of the CUE £100 competition!
Two past Development i-Teams projects have been announced as winners of this year's CUE £100 for 100 words competition for their 100 word summaries of their ideas. Ten winners were selected in total out of 271 entries. Michael Coto, with a low-cost water-purifying photocatalyst for rural communities (Development i-Teams Easter 2017) Tom Hudson and the…
