Rice students to compete in Labor Day weekend ‘Design-A-Thon’

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Rice students to compete in Labor Day weekend ‘Design-A-Thon’

HOUSTON – (Sept. 2, 2016) – More than 20 teams made up of 100 Rice University undergraduate and graduate students will compete in Rice’s Oshman Design Kitchen’s inaugural Labor Day weekend INNOVATE Design-A-Thon. The event begins tonight and runs through Sunday at 4 p.m. Media will likely find the design-and-build portion Saturday most useable; however, the full agenda for the three-day event is available here.

This year’s INNOVATE Design-A-Thon is an engineering design competition similar to the traditional code-based hackathon. Teams of three to five students will compete to design, prototype and present the best assistive devices for adults and children with disabilities. Each student team will have the duration of the Design-A-Thon and the physical and human resources of the OEDK, along with more than 20 guest mentors and experts, to develop their solution over the course of the weekend.

Who:  Rice University students.

What: Labor Day weekend INNOVATE Design-A-Thon competition to create assistive devices for adults and children with disabilities. See the full agenda.

When: 4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2, through 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 4.

Where: Rice University’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen and Brockman Hall, Room 101.

A map of the Rice University campus is available here.

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