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Our 2024 Spring NextGen Cohort: Combating the Opioid Crisis

Hardware Park proudly introduces the 2024 Spring NextGen Cohort, a groundbreaking collaboration with Bessel, UAB, and Birmingham Promise.

This cohort of interns is dedicated to combating the opioid crisis by contributing to OD Revive, a wearable device designed to detect and report opioid overdoses. Join us in our journey of innovation, education, and compassion, shaping the future of medtech.

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Student at Hardware Park's 2024 Spring NextGen Cohort

Our 2024 Spring NextGen Cohort Partners

The leading cause of mortality in the US is overdose

Our NextGen student engineers are driving the future of overdose prevention with OD Revive

The Revive Band by OD Revive is a life-saving wearable that monitors vital signs for opioid overdose indicators. Upon detecting a potential overdose, it alerts emergency contacts and provides the user's location to expedite Narcan administration and emergency response.

OD Revive's Website

Creating future engineering leaders

Advancing medtech: Bessel's Origin program shapes tomorrow's innovators

Bessel Origin transforms engineering teams through interactive workshops, project based learning addressing your key challenges, and active, experienced mentoring. Chris Danek, founder of Bessel, is an experienced medtech founder with two successful exits.

Bessel's Website

Our 2024 Spring NextGen Cohort

Our 2024 Spring NextGen Cohort is funded thanks to our recent Innovate Alabama grant.

Kaleb Newton

Ramsay High School / Senior

Amber Moore

Ramsay High School / Senior

Daniel Dominguez

Carver High School / Senior

Caren Smith

Woodlawn High School / Senior

Bella Capaldo

BME / Fr

Daegan Benjamin

BME / Fr

Dexten Retchloff

BME / Sr

Sree Nataraj

BME / So

Ty Dailey

BME / Jr

Mo Overstreet

ME / Jr

Dawson Culver

EngDes / Jr

Isabella Tirelli Rebolho

BME / Sr

Watch the documentary on our
2023 Medtech Design Experience

Made by Gabriel Talley from Uphill Growth.

Check out our press coverage

"The two-week summer program was designed to give students from various backgrounds the opportunity to collaborate on medical device prototype creation with the guidance of established innovators in the mechanical engineering industry"

Ashley Silver

Reporter, Govtech.com

Alabama political reporter and hardware park

"In those two weeks, students have designed two main projects while working on side passion projects. The main projects are a new crutch with a structure that eases stair use and a wrist-wearable inhaler holder usable in sports."

Samuel Stettheimer

Reporter, Alabama Political Reporter

"During the first week, students were split into two groups of four and were charged with developing an idea for and prototyping a new medical device which required that students thought about both marketability and practicality"

Ryan Michaels

Reporter, Birmingham Times

"The Innovate Alabama grant will significantly amplify Hardware Park’s ability to provide educational programming for budding medical device engineers in high school and college, according to Conner."

Alabama Newscenter Staff

Reporters, Alabama Newscenter

Want to intern at Hardware Park?

If you're interested in interning at Hardware Park and are a high school student living in Birmingham or a college student living anywhere, please reach out to us. We'll keep you in mind for future opportunities.