Our NeuroNYC website is finally live at www.neuro-nyc.com!
We’re a dynamic collective of neurotech companies aiming to propel the city into a leading neurotechnology hub. Explore our website to learn more about who we are and the exciting events on the horizon.
Special thanks to Synchron, OpenBCI, and Sharper Sense for hosting our first three happy hours this year!
More people are becoming aware of the potential #neurotechnology has to positively impact our lives and looking to get involved. I believe that this industry will grow exponentially and shape how we interact with our environment in ways we can’t imagine today.
It’s vital to provide those interested in learning with resources to get started. I struggled to find them when I was a student. Harrison Canning and Colin Fausnaught—the BCI Guys—are doing an amazing job of filling this gap by providing educational materials that are not only free but also engaging and easy to follow. I always recommend their Foundations of Neurotechnology course to our new hires who come from a different industry.
Neurotech poses exciting yet daunting challenges. Lowering the barrier of entry and generating interest is essential to attract the bright minds who can help us to solve them. We’re only scratching the surface, let’s keep digging.
P.S. Thank you Sonika Vuyyuru for gifting me the #BCIGal shirt!
It was a pleasure to speak at the VRARA Education Committee session about the Future of VR, Neuroscience and Spatial Computing! I especially enjoyed hearing about the different applications the audience was interested in using Galea for.
Special thanks to Carlos J. Ochoa Fernández for inviting me as a speaker and organizing the event. The work this organization is doing to develop immersive technologies and make them accessible is admirable.
For those of you who couldn’t attend, I’ll share the recording when it comes out. Looking forward to the next one!
For the past few weeks been working hard at Unipeers to define our values and make sure our branding is aligned with them. Finally, our new logo and graphics are up at unipeers.org!
One of the most challenging aspects of studying abroad is understanding how the other country’s educational system works well enough to apply to your top school, get admitted, and get a scholarship or funding.
As an international student in both the UK and the US I experienced how overwhelming this process can be. Having had a mentor or a reference person to ask at my dream university would have saved me countless hours of frustration. To help others who find themselves in this situation, I’ve joined forces with Katie Donahoe to create Unipeers.
Unipeers is a non-profit initiative to bring together the largest community of graduate alumni, students, and prospective students from top US universities. Whether you’re looking to learn more about applying to graduate school or landing your first job, Unipeers will help you connect with people just like you who’ve done it before!
Learn more about how to join as a member or volunteer on our website: https://unipeers.org/.
Social contagion and the Pygmalion effect are two psychological phenomena we experience on a daily basis. Have you ever given a second thought to how to take advantage of them on your path to success?
Read my article here to learn about these phenomena and ways in which you can start using them to your advantage today!
Image Source: Duke University
Living in Spain made applying to study in the UK and later in the US challenging for me. Not having anyone to ask at my dream schools or the cities I wanted to move to made me feel lost, overwhelmed and discouraged.
I’m grateful for persevering and getting through the process, but also aware there were times when I almost returned home. In an effort to prevent this from happening to others, Katie Donahoe and I are creating Unipeers.
What’s Unipeers? Learn all about it in my Medium article!
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For 6 months I reached out to 200 successful people in NYC’s tech sphere. After 50+ calls with engineers, entrepreneurs, researchers, CEOs, CTOs, and managers here are my top 10 lessons to take away!
Click here to read this article I wrote on Medium.
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At the time of choosing my graduate school I was an undergraduate student in the UK, where I’d moved from my home country Spain. During my years as an engineering student, my friends and I often thought of products we could build to solve some of the existing problems in society. We’d start building the product but had no idea how to start getting it out there or if people were even interested in it, which led us to giving up.
I often watched videos and read books about engineers turned entrepreneurs. I remember staying up one night watching techie videos and one of a startup born at Cornell Tech came up. I watched it and immediately felt inspired. As I read more about their engineering program I thought to myself ‘this feels just right, I have to give it a shot!’. I soon found out the deadline for applying was the next day. I stayed up all night putting together the best cover letter and scholarship application I could. As soon as I sent them, I fell asleep, feeling exhausted but hopeful.
Click here to read the full story!
The Star Quest website is up now! Sign up to learn more about this awesome gamified goal tracker for kids, and send us an email if you have any questions or suggestions for the product!
Click here to visit the Star Quest website, and follows us on Instagram and Twitter at @starquestapp!