Neurotech Collider Lab
Designing with Purpose: Student Innovation to Support Youth Mental Health
In April, the Dana NextGen team visited the University of California, Berkeley campus to see the “Designing Tech Solutions for Youth Mental Health” course in action. The course, designed for undergraduate students to gain hands-on learning experience in entrepreneurship and technology, is not your typical classroom experience—rather, it’s a 16-week immersive program—known as a “Challenge Lab,” where students work in teams spanning different disciplines to explore complex challenges in the mental health landscape. During the course, students draw from diverse vantage points to prototype solutions and learn what it really takes to bring ideas to life.