Amount of funding awarded
2587.36
Budget Report
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How the program has supported you
Project Lifeline was formed after UBC BEST was approached by the UBC Faculty of Medicine. They proposed this problem and BEST felt that we equipped to tackle this problem. Because these devices will be send to Malawi, which is an underdeveloped country, there was limited funding, only enough to pay a manufacturer to produce the final design. Thanks to the support of PAF, Lifeline was able to purchase all the materials needed to prototype and iterate through designs, as well as send off the design to Malawi. They furthered this by creating a type with a small electric motor to more accurately quantify how much the organs are lowered per day.
Outcomes
Project Lifeline is in its final stages – the final design is being completed and is scheduled to be wrapped up in the next few weeks. The team came up with many different models and ran them through different stakeholders at the Faculty of Medicine and Vacouver General Hospital before sending the selected design to Malawi. After consultation with the doctors at Malawi, the team had enough feedback to alter the design accordingly. This continued until they landed on a final design, one that included an option electrical component to motorize the silo. They expect to be finished the final prototype by the end of August, after which it will be presented to the stakeholders before being sent the manufacturer.