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Projects & Labs

Explore our activity library. Projects and labs offer different ways to investigate medicine, healthcare, and scientific ideas.

Activity collection

Medical Innovation

Medical Invention: Find Its Weakness

Investigate an existing medical invention, identify its limitations, and explore how its design or functionality could be improved.

Individual
Clinical Medicine

The ER Challenge

Work through a fictional emergency medical case, examine evidence, and adjust your reasoning as new information becomes available.

Group, up to four students
Biomedical Engineering

Build & Improve a Healthcare Device

Construct a functional educational model of a healthcare device, test its performance, and investigate possible improvements.

Group, up to four students
Prosthetics & Biomedical Engineering

Prosthetic Engineering Challenge

Design and build a working prosthetic mechanism, then test and improve its movement, reliability, and mechanical design.

Group, up to four students
Healthcare Careers

Choose Your Healthcare Specialty

Research a healthcare specialty of your choice, examining the work involved, required education, and career opportunities.

Individual
Healthcare Management

Open Your Own Clinic

Develop a realistic plan for a fictional healthcare clinic, considering its services, staffing, equipment, expenses, and daily operations.

Individual
Surgery & Clinical Skills

Keyhole Surgery Challenge

Practise precision, coordination, and instrument control through a camera-guided surgical simulation.

Educational lab
Ophthalmology & Optometry

Working Human Eye

Explore how human vision works using optical models that demonstrate image formation, focusing, and corrective lenses.

Educational lab
Cardiology & Cardiovascular Physiology

Miniature Heart Pump

Investigate how the heart pumps blood by creating a simple working model of fluid movement and circulation.

Educational lab
Neuroscience

Neuroscience Reaction-Time Experiment

Measure and compare reaction times through practical experiments while learning how the nervous system responds to stimuli.

Educational lab
This is our permanent activity library. An activity may not be offered every year. Current offerings, assignments, and participation details are shared internally through Google Classroom.