Villanova Students Develop Innovative Solutions at First-Annual Health Hackathon Focused on COVID-19
Students from Engineering, Nursing, Business and Liberal Arts & Sciences competed in the three-day virtual event hosted by Villanova University’s Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship Institute
Students from across Villanova University came together for the first annual Health Hackathon, a three-day, virtual event hosted earlier this semester by Villanova’s Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship Institute (ICE).
“The goal of the Villanova Health Hackathon was to create opportunities for cross-school collaboration in innovative projects, and to give Villanova Nursing students more experiential learning opportunities outside of their typical clinical work,” said Ann Miller, the Daniel J. Hogarty, Jr. ’61 Director of the Institute for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. “We know that the more interdisciplinary the teams are, the more creative and inno