TeenTech Build Your Future Live: Health

This TeenTech Build Your Future Live session focuses on Health. How do we build new hospitals and provisions in cities that are already overcrowded? What technology can improve healthcare?

We’ll be looking at a variety of cutting edge technologies being used in hospitals to treat life-threatening illnesses and helping to connect medical practitioners with patients, and how Covid-19 has accelerated the adoption of new technologies, including Augmented Reality.

We will also be looking at the new £380m UCLH Proton Beam cancer treatment hospital in London, an eleven-storey hospital (five below ground) providing treatment for those with complex cancers and blood disorders. We will be talking to those involved with the project, and exploring the challenges of building such a facility, with shielding of the medical equipment a vital consideration.

If the timings don’t work for your school, or if you can’t join the sessions live, don’t worry! All sessions will be available for playback during the programme and you can even send us questions beforehand for our experts to answer.

What is TeenTech Build Your Future Live?

Our exciting TeenTech Live Build Your Future programme helps students aged 11-19 understand exciting career opportunities in the connected cities of the future through fun, interactive and engaging live sessions, and challenges set by industry experts to develop your students’ skills.

This is generously funded by the Ove Arup Foundation. The programme provides your students with access to industry experts from Arup and other local and global organisations.

The TeenTech Build Your Future programme aims to:

• Showcase the importance of digital, scientific, and engineering skills
• Engage and inspire the next generation in the growing opportunities in sustainable design, connected cities, transport, health, energy supply
• Raise students’ aspirations and the profile of career opportunities
• Provide students with opportunities to develop and evidence their technical and personal skills
• Connect industry and education to support our leaders of tomorrow as they become responsible global citizens of today

Read more about TeenTech Build Your Future Live here.

What does the TeenTech Build Your Future Live programme consist of?

Interactive Sessions
TeenTech presenters will interview topic experts who will talk about their company, role, projects, and answer questions from your students.

Challenges
Students spend classroom time working on a specified innovation challenge with a structure and resources provided by TeenTech, supported by industry volunteers.

Showcase Events
An online celebration of student projects.