Schedule

This year’s Health Tech Jam is going virtual!

The annual Health Tech Jam for UIC students inspires innovation and cultivates collaboration in a fast-paced, education-filled team competition. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 events will be entirely virtual, hosted on video meeting platform, Zoom.

To provide flexibility for our student participants, the event will span four days, with a few required online meetings for the teams.

Required events are marked with the * symbol.

Thursday, February 10th

*6:00pm *Event kick-off: opening talk with expectations, rules, goals, and prompt reveal
*6:30pm *Workshop 1: Delegation, Ideation, and Teamwork!
*7:30pm - 8:00pm *Teams are divided into breakout rooms for introduction activities, discussing 3-5 small ideas based on prompts.

Friday, February 11th

No required events will occur.

However, teams may choose to work on their project at any time between the event’s kick-off and wrap-up.

Saturday, February 12th

Not all of the time in this window is required for participation. Teams may optionally elect to work during some of this time individually or as a group.
10:00am Open work time: suggested that students delegate tasks to work independently when not in workshops
*11:00am *Feedback Checkpoint 2: 20 minutes with different judges
12:00pm Workshop 2, Rich Severin: COVID-19 and Science Communication (30 minutes, with 15 minutes extra for break/questions)
12:45pm Workshop 3, Kelly Cloninger: Building the Blueprints of a Health Care App through Wireframing (30 minutes, with 15 minutes extra for break/questions)
1:30pm Workshop 4, Altus Academy participants (30 minutes, with 15 minutes extra for break/questions)
2:15pm Workshop 5, Liza Papautsky - Human Centered Design Considerations (30 minutes, with 15 minutes extra for break/questions)
2:45pm - 4:00pm Open work time: suggested that students utilize information from workshops to refine and polish their final idea and begin creating visuals.

Sunday, February 13th

*11:00am *Feedback Checkpoint 3: 20 minutes with 3 groups of judges
12:15pm Open work time: suggested that students take their last pieces of feedback to continue refining idea before creating the final pitch.
*3:30pm - 4:00pm *Event Wrap-Up