August 31, 2016
A team of UC Merced engineering students (who won first place out of 24 teams and a $5,000 prize at UC Merced’s Innovate to Grow Spring 2016 ) — plus one from a nearby state university and two from a local high school — made progress this summer on prototypes of portable machines for diagnosing diseases while enhancing the breadth of their education at the same time.