Practicums are open to everyone - no prior experience or application required - just a passion for innovation and a desire to make a meaningful impact.Spring 2025 Practicums:If you want to learn more before enrolling please reach out to inventors@CNS.utexas.edu or the professor directly at Charlee.Garden@utexas.edu.Inventors Practicum: Health Outcomes, AI & Equity | Unique ID: NSC 325 | T & TH | 12:30pm - 2:00pm | The intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare holds immense potential to improve health outcomes or amplify the deep-rooted inequity in access and quality of treatment. For example, in the U.S. racial minorities experience disproportionately higher rates of chronic illness and mortality, as noted by Black Americans are 60% more likely to have diabetes and twice as likely to die from heart disease than white Americans. Join us in this hands-on course to explore the evolving role of AI in healthcare, with a focus on creating equitable solutions that improve race-based health inequities. No prior experience is necessary—just a passion for innovation and a desire to make a meaningful impact. In this course, you'll critically engage with the ethical implications of AI and explore how to design systems that prioritize fairness and equity. Using human-centered design thinking and AI-driven rapid prototyping, you will tackle real-world healthcare challenges. Guest speakers will provide insights into the ethical, technological, and social dimensions of AI in healthcare, ensuring that solutions promote fairness and equity for all, especially those historically underserved. Inventors Practicum Food Systems & Sustainability | Unique ID: NSC 325 | T & TH | 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Join us in this hands-on course to co-create sustainable solutions for Texas’ food system. In Austin alone, 1.24 million pounds of food are wasted daily, while 14.4% of residents face food insecurity. We believe there’s real potential to make a lasting, positive impact on our food system. No prior experience is necessary—just an open mind and a commitment to making a difference. You'll dive into the Texas food landscape, utilize innovative problem-solving frameworks like human-centered design thinking, harness AI for rapid prototyping, and develop valuable communication and teamwork skills. Guest speakers will share their expertise on sustainability and the challenges facing the Texas food system. Click here to learn more about the CNS Inventors Program. If you want to learn more before enrolling please reach out to inventors@CNS.utexas.edu or the professor directly at Charlee.Garden@utexas.edu. Fall 2024 Practicum:UPDATED (8/19/24) Food Systems & Sustainability| Unique ID: NSC 325 46945 | T & TH | 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Join us in this hands-on course to co-create sustainable solutions for the Texas food system. No experience needed—just an open mind and a desire to make a difference. You'll explore the Texas food system, apply innovative problem-solving frameworks such as human-centered design thinking, leverage AI for rapid prototyping, and build transferable communication and teamwork skills. Guest speakers will offer insights into the Texas food system and sustainability. Fall 2024 Further Opportunities for Practicum Students:Advanced Research Experience - course credit for continuing your practicum research project Join the Inventors Program in Spring 2024
Are you wondering if you should become an Inventor? Please watch this video HERE from some of our past students explaining how they became Inventors! Spoiler Alert: You will make a great Inventor! : ) Spring 2024 Practicums:Scientific Ventures: Turning Research into Reality| Unique ID: NSC 325 46510 | T & TH | 12:30pm - 2:00pm | This practicum teaches students lean startup and product design and exposes them to real-world customers, users, and problems. This course introduces the pathway from scientific research to real-world innovations. Learners will delve into methodologies such as the lean startup, explore professional communication, team dynamics, and career readiness in the entrepreneurial context. Guest speakers will provide insights into the entrepreneurial ecosystem, supplemented with reflections on intellectual property and its role in scientific innovations. Food Systems| Unique ID: NSC 325 46515 | T & TH | 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Join us to co-create solutions for our community partners in the Central Texas food system. Gain knowledge about our food planning community, gather real world experience, gain experience with research tools, data analysis and systems thinking, engage with community partners, and explore models for our future food system. Spring 2024 Further Opportunities for prior Practicum Students:Advanced Research Experience - course credit for continuing your practicum research project Application to be a practicum UGCA - help instructor run a practicum course. Application to be an Inventors Ambassador - help with running the program. Previous Semesters . . .Scientific Ventures: Turning Research into Reality| Unique ID: NSC 325 47565 | T & TH | 2:00pm - 3:30pm | This practicum teaches students lean startup and product design and exposes them to real-world customers, users, and problems. This course introduces the pathway from scientific research to real-world innovations. Learners will delve into methodologies such as the lean startup, explore professional communication, team dynamics, and career readiness in the entrepreneurial context. Guest speakers will provide insights into the entrepreneurial ecosystem, supplemented with reflections on intellectual property and its role in scientific innovations. Cybersecurity Practicum - Work with Experts from Trend Micro
| Unique ID: NSC 325 48020 | T & TH | 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Partner with cybersecurity experts from Trend Micro tackling security issues from a broad range of use cases. Take your Fall 2022/Spring 2023 Inventors research the next step!Inventors Spring Networking Event, April 14th Present your project to a large and varied audience! Win prizes! This networking event is part of the CNS Undergraduate Research Forum, so complete their registration process (deadline extended until March 10th).
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