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Students’ Bladder Device Wins $10,000 Prize

Anyone curious about the ingenious ways in which classroom lessons can have practical applications can look to the annual Innovation Days competition held this past week at UW-Madison’s College of Engineering.

Five UW-Madison biomedical engineering students claimed $10,000 and the Schoofs Prize for Creativity with their ActiveCath creation, a catheterized system to sense bladder pressure and prevent incontinence.