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05/25/2026

Introducing: ExerVault 💪💻

This year, ExerVault worked with their community partner, Origami Rehab, to develop a web app that would allow physical therapists and staff to customize and print personalized exercise plans, while complying with HIPAA.

Their main goals are to make the web app easy to navigate for users, streamline the exercise prescription process, filter exercises by category, and being able to print the customized exercise plans.

After drawing up wireframes for all the various pages, setting up server and database communications, and repeatedly debugging, ExerVault successfully launched their web app for the team at Origami Rehab to use!

For their next steps, they plan to implement cross-account communication and scaling the database to accommodate more users. We are so proud of what ExerVault has accomplished this year!!

05/13/2026

Introducing: Steady Stir 🥘👩‍🍳

This year, Steady Stir worked with their community partner who has hemiparesis to develop a pot-stabilizing device that enables cooking with one hand and is adjustable for different sized pots.

After iterating through many designs, from a wall attachment design with a hinge claw to having multiple lever clamps surrounding the pot, Steady Stir found their solution: A nylon based, silicone coated claw with an aluminum band to stabilize the pot, attached to a backing wall secured in the gap between the stove and the counter with suction cups.

We are so proud of what Steady Stir has accomplished this year!!

05/04/2026

Introducing: Innovest ⚽️🎽

Throughout this year, Innovest worked with Alexia, an amputee soccer goalkeeper who competed for the USA Amputee Women's World Cup squad in 2024, to design a vest that can stabilize the arm of a goalkeeper playing amputee soccer.

After iterating through designs, optimizing fabric blends, and learning to use a sewing machine from scratch, Innovest created a lightweight, secure, and adjustable vest, tailored for Alexia to use as a goalkeeper!

Looking ahead, Innovest plans to improve the vest's adjustability to fit a wider range of players and to make it reproducible.

MedLaunch is so proud of what Innovest has done this year!!

04/20/2026

This past Sunday, we held our annual Final Showcase!
Our six project teams presented their solutions to their community partners, faculty, and friends. Big thank you to everyone who attended 😄 We are so proud of everyone for all your hard work this year, you make MedLaunch possible!

2025-2026 Project Teams:
Innovest
SteadyStir
ExerVault
Aqua Assist
Assistix
Words On Wheels

10/03/2025

MedLaunch cohort 2025-2026 is officially here! This year we have 53 members throughout our six project teams. We're so excited to see the solutions we design this year!

Here's a glimpse of our projects this year (more details to come):
- Assistive technologies for an amputee support group
- Quadriplegic mouth stick
- Sport-specific crutches
- Adaptive cooking equipment for user with hemiparesis
- Physical therapy app
- Adaptive book holder wheelchair attachment

09/02/2025

Thank you everyone for attending our first mass meeting tonight 😁 MedLaunch application for 2025-2026 is now open! You can access it with the QR code in this post or via the link in our Linktree!

06/23/2025

MedLaunch final projects from the 2024-2025 school year!

04/13/2025

See everyone TOMORROW!!! We are so excited to showcase everything our teams have accomplished this year!

04/05/2025

Final Showcase is tomorrow!!! Can’t wait to see everyone there and share the amazing work our teams have done🙌

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