Written by Tiffany Wong, an engineering student at VCU and SI 2015 Alumna

Last Saturday, EWH at VCU hosted a Kit Day with the Math Science Innovation Center, and it was a success! We had five volunteers total (Millie Shah, Sindora Baddam, Nilan Vaghjiani, Andy Vo, and myself), and about 20 middle school students from the Richmond, Virginia, area joined our session.

The students were really excited to build an optical heart rate monitor. The staff from MSiC were hyped for the activity as well and, after seeing it in action, they encouraged us to come to the conference in the future. I want to give a huge shout out to Nilan's impressive preparation and execution. He was able to incorporate an introduction of biomedical engineering, circuitry, and physiology and ended the session with a connection to real life with a fun gym exercise.

Thank you to everyone who made this event possible. EWH at VCU will be utilizing EWH’s kits in the future for other outreach programs.