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Imperial engineers work with local youth club to design and build e-scooters

Imperial engineers work with local youth club to design and build e-scooters

Imperial has been working with North Paddington Youth Club to build electric scooters alongside the College's engineers. Read more

When Science and Art collide: White City Sculpture Challenge

When Science and Art collide: White City Sculpture Challenge

The 2022 Sculpture Challenge will provide students the opportunity to collaborate and bring their vision to reality, resulting in the winning sculpture having a permanent presence at the White City Campus. Read more

Hackstarter programme launches to support Imperial’s student makers and creators

Hackstarter programme launches to support Imperial’s student makers and creators

Imperial College Advanced Hackspace launches Hackstarter to provide £500 prototype development grants. Read more

BSc Remote Medicine at Hackspace: Prototyping a low cost, continuous oxygen saturation probe

BSc Remote Medicine at Hackspace: Prototyping a low cost, continuous oxygen saturation probe

Vicky Earl and Ellie Morgan completed a 15 week project with BSc Remote Medicine at Hackspace, and both worked on developing a device to monitor oxygen saturation to predict Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) in the wearer. Read more

BSc Remote Medicine at Hackspace: Building a device to measure Acute Mountain Sickness

BSc Remote Medicine at Hackspace: Building a device to measure Acute Mountain Sickness

Callum Sowden completed a 15 week project with his course BSc Remote Medicine at Hackspace, where he designed and built a device to measure respiratory rate and facilitate earlier prediction and detection of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS). Read more

Imperial startup developing hygiene-verification technology raises £625,000

Imperial startup developing hygiene-verification technology raises £625,000

FreshCheck, a startup developing colour-change tools for hygiene verification, has raised £625,000 seed investment from investors including the ICIF. Read more

The DigiFAB Hackathon 2021: our challenge and how we hacked it

The DigiFAB Hackathon 2021: our challenge and how we hacked it

Undergraduate students, Jiayue Feng and Sandeepa Tuladhar (both Chemistry with Molecular Physics) and Shannan Huang (Chemical Engineering) teamed up in the DigiFAB Hackathon to build a low-cost automated liquid handling platform. Read more

Hack it! Reflecting on the 2021 DigiFAB Hackathon

Hack it! Reflecting on the 2021 DigiFAB Hackathon

Undergraduate students Kin Weng Chao and Yuchen Lou (both Chemistry) and Way Gene Hoo (Chemical Engineering) took part in this year’s DigiFAB Hackathon Challenge. Here they tell us more about the challenge, how they hacked it and what they learnt along the way. Read more

Science Minister visits thriving innovation ecosystem at White City

Science Minister visits thriving innovation ecosystem at White City

The Minister for Science, Research and Innovation Amanda Solloway MP visits Imperial’s White City Campus. Read more

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Students show their prototypes in the workshop

LevelUP

Students talk in the workshop with a Hack Fellow

Demo Day