[[File:RachelSmith.jpg|thumbframe]]Rachel Soo Hoo Smith , UIF Spring 2014<br/>Biomedical Engineer, University of Virginia '13
<br/>Hello all! I'm Rachel. I've just finished my UVa degree in Biomedical Engineerthis past May. I'm still right here in Charlottesville because, my lab partner and I began to realize entrepreneurial viability of our capstone project. (We are making a rapid diagnostic device for bacterial disease, University base off the simplicity of Virginia '13<br/>UIF Spring 2014a pregnancy test.) Through business competitions and grant funding, we acquired over $120,000 in that year, which is allowing us to continue the research we need to secure a patent and form a business. Exciting!!!
<span style="font-family: arialBesides that, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello all! I'm Rachelreally get my energy by exciting others about design and revving people up about the potency of their own ideas. I've just finished my UVa degree in Biomedical Engineer ('13, undergrad) nearly died of joy this past Mayfall when 50 people showed up to a never-done -before [http://www. I'm still right here in Charlottesville because, in my fourth year, my capstone partner and I began to realize entrepreneurial viability of our projectcollegestartup. <org/2014/01/06/span><span style="fontmedical-family: arial, sanshackathon-encourages-interdisciplinary-serif; fontcollaboration-size: 13px;">(We are making a rapid diagnostic device for bacterial disease, base off the simplicity of a pregnancy test.)</span><span style="fontto-family: arial, sanssolve-serif; fonthealth-size: 13px;"> We acquired over $120challenges/ UVa Medical Hackathon] we set up to solve a problem that clinicians at our hospital were urgently facing. Furthermore,000 mentoring students in business competitions Engineering Students without Borders about responsible forms of change and grant funding that yearactivism, which is allowing us to continue I really can vouch for the research we striking parallels of development work and entrepreneurship in practice; with adventures into misconceptions of 'need to secure a patent ', implied stakeholder expectations, and form a businessperceptions of failure vs. Excitingsuccess IT'S THE SAME THING!!!</span> And it's hard to do until you're waist deep, trying it for yourself.
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