Identify clinical needs
Teams work with healthcare professionals to uncover real, unmet needs in the clinical setting.
Programme
Find the problem. Build the team. Launch what works.
Sling Health runs one programme, on one national calendar, in every chapter. A clinical need goes in at the top. What comes out the other end is a working prototype, a team that knows how to build, and sometimes a company.
The lifecycle
Four stages. One cycle.
Every chapter runs the same arc. It is deliberately short — a team that cannot get to something real inside a cycle learns that early, which is itself the point.
Design and prototype
From sketches to functional prototypes, students build medical technologies using design thinking and rapid iteration.
Validate with experts
Teams receive feedback from clinicians, researchers and investors to refine usability, feasibility and impact.
Pitch to launch
On Demo Day, teams present their ventures to a live audience, gaining visibility, funding opportunities and potential partnerships.
The three experiences
Problem Day. Design Reviews. Demo Day.
01 Problem Day
Where problems find builders.
The origin point of every Sling Health project. Clinicians bring the things that are harder than they should be. Students bring the disciplines to attack them. Teams form in the room.
Poster-pitch fairOpen houseClinician-submitted needsInterdisciplinary team formation
Submit a clinical problem
02 Design Reviews
Good ideas survive contact with experts.
Every team stands in front of a panel and defends the work. Clinical reality, technical feasibility, regulatory path, commercial logic. What survives goes to Demo Day.
5-mentor panelDemo Day readinessClinical and technical critiqueIterate, then return
Join a Design Review panel
03 Demo Day
Built in months. Presented in minutes.
The annual showcase. Chapter pitch competitions feed a national stage, where teams present what they built to clinicians, faculty, sponsors and investors.
Chapter pitch competitionNational showcaseAudience Choice awardsLive audience of clinicians and investors
Inside Demo Day
Who is on a team
Nobody finishes this alone.
Sling Health teams are interdisciplinary by construction. A team without a clinician does not understand the need. A team without an engineer cannot build. A team without someone thinking about cost, evidence and adoption ends the cycle with a demo and nothing else.