######studentclubs
2/28/2017 2:46 PM
benjamindeleener :
<!channel> We need help!
The Student Clubs committee is looking for someone to help us develop a website for the Student Clubs initiative. The website will be cool and good-looking, including lots of ressources for new, future and established student clubs, obviously open-source, and probably developed using Jekyll (or similar framework) on GitHub. If you know someone that would be interested in helping us, please contact me (mailto:[email protected]|[email protected]).
2/28/2017 10:34 PM
judd :
<@U090L60LE> could probably have someone in our dev shop (www.ae.studio) make a good-looking site for free pretty easily
3/11/2017 1:13 PM
sabrina.k.tang :
Hi! Does anyone here know which companies are more likely to send student clubs sample products to demo and expose studnets to what is out there
3/11/2017 1:13 PM
sabrina.k.tang :
?
3/11/2017 6:38 PM
sydneyneurotechx :
Muse, Neurosky and OpenBCI have always been very nice about doing that. If you are looking for TDCS http://Foc.us|Foc.us have been helpful.
3/12/2017 10:34 PM
pawel :
Hi Sabrina, My company - Neuro Device is very open to support a students. We provide stimulators for fMRI (tactile and olfactometer), but very soon we will announce two new products - transcranial electro stimulator (with much more modulations as are offered currently) and GSR/Pulse wearable bracelet. If you are interested in, please send me direct message. We have also our lab, where you can use EEGs, eyetrackers, face-recording, psychophysiology apparatus. Unfortunately lab is located in Warsaw, Poland...
3/13/2017 8:15 AM
physionikhil :
Hi pawel , when r those cranial stimulation devices be available?
3/13/2017 11:25 PM
sydneyneurotechx :
To view archived text from Slack please visit:
https://github.com/NeuroTechX/ntx_slack_archive/blob/master/studentclubs.md
3/15/2017 10:34 PM
sabrina.k.tang :
Hi Pawel, Do you have a website? Would love to learn more abou tit.
3/23/2017 4:46 PM
hectordomorozco :
Beautiful NTX people, quick question: If you were budgeting a webpage for a student club (nothing too fancy, nothing too big)... How much money would you allocate to this?
3/23/2017 6:27 PM
yannick :
You shouldn't pay for it, students should do it. The easiest way is to fork the NeuroTechUofT one on GitHub (Jekyll based). Indiana University is currently doing their website as well based on that approach. We'd like to make a "Template out of it". Thumbs up to NeuroTechUofT! Now we can copy their website and improve on it and provide a nice template to new student clubs!
3/23/2017 6:28 PM
yannick :
CC hectordomorozco, braden, sayan_faraz
3/23/2017 6:29 PM
yannick :
Braden is currently spearheading the Indiana University NeuroTech Student Club.
And Sayan as we all know, with his awesome team, is behind NeuroTechUofT.
3/23/2017 6:30 PM
yannick :
hectordomorozco do not hesitate to contact them to get the McMaster one online 😄
3/23/2017 6:51 PM
sayan_faraz :
yannick ours isn't jekyll based yet 😛 (we've been just hard-coding our blog posts 😢 ... yes i know very hacky .-.) but we're going to make it jekyll-based very soon
but yeah you definitely don't need to pay for it; we just recruited students who were interested in learning web development and gave them an awesome project to work on 😄
and hectordomorozco definitely feel free to contact me if you need anything 😄
3/23/2017 6:52 PM
sayan_faraz :
also yannick is this the official channel for student clubs now (ie are we stopping the use of the nt-studentclubs slack?
3/23/2017 8:46 PM
yannick :
sayan_faraz Ho! Really! By the look of it, I thought it was.
http://neurotechuoft.github.io/index.html
3/23/2017 8:48 PM
yannick :
As for the Student Club Slack, I'd come back here, until too much is happening and we really need subsections for specific conversations. benjamindeleener, your thoughts?
3/24/2017 12:42 AM
benjamindeleener :
sayan_faraz yannick indeed this channel is a little bit more used that a whole studentclubs slack domain. And I guess it is enough for small conversations during the year. Although, we could keep the studentclubs domain for the competition, or create a specific channel on this one.
3/24/2017 5:42 AM
braden :
I was planning on getting a website together this weekend, so perhaps it would be more efficient to start something on wordpress since I�m more familiar? I�m willing to help with this process, hectordomorozco.
3/24/2017 5:42 AM
braden :
any thoughts? yannick benjamindeleener
3/24/2017 5:45 AM
braden :
Also just as a quick update on the status of moving parts here at IU, so far I�ve found 4 other students that want to be engaged with neurotech.
3/24/2017 5:51 AM
braden :
I also met with the hacker squad within our psych department today, they�re going to let me use a mini race track controlled by neurosky as a tangible promotional example rather than trying to inspire others through only a slide deck
3/24/2017 5:52 AM
braden :
Any suggestions on getting faculty support though?
3/24/2017 5:54 AM
braden :
I met with the psych departments director of outreach today, and he thought it might be difficult to get most of our professors to understand the value in what we�re trying to do
3/24/2017 5:55 AM
braden :
My first thought was to make some sort of video or podcast portraying testimonials from undergrads or professors from other universities
3/24/2017 5:55 AM
sayan_faraz :
braden our approach so far has been not to approach faculty until we have something that they can contribute to; or else they end up sitting around not really knowing how to contribute
but on the other hand they can really give helpful tips that would save lots of time and worrying
3/24/2017 5:57 AM
sayan_faraz :
but again a lot of this is 'trial and error' like in startups, so not completely sure if our approach has been a good one 😛
i'll definitely say it has its pros and cons
3/24/2017 5:57 AM
sayan_faraz :
we've tried asking grad students and postdocs instead; one of them really saved us with a few projects
3/24/2017 6:05 AM
braden :
yes that makes complete sense. I have some experience working with an awesome faculty member whose support would be super helpful, but it�s been a couple days with no response. I�m sure it would be helpful if we were able to show him that we�re serious through some tangible project we did
3/24/2017 6:07 AM
braden :
good to hear that you�ve found grad/post doc support though, that is definitely part of my plans for next week. I have a list of EEG Labs I�m going to visit next week with hopes of finding a mentor of sorts
3/24/2017 6:08 AM
braden :
it would be great to talk to you about your past experiences with this whole process sometime, would you be willing sayan_faraz?
3/24/2017 6:11 AM
sayan_faraz :
braden yeah ofc 😄
but i def want to stress that our way might not be the best, and other groups have probably had more success with their ways of doing things
speaking of which yannick benjamindeleener should we have a meeting to discuss our approaches in running our clubs? would be an awesome way of learning from each other 😛
3/24/2017 6:18 AM
braden :
yesss point taken. the curriculum I�m currently in is strictly group projects, which has definitely shown me all varieties of successful and disastrous team dynamics. 🙂🙃
3/24/2017 6:21 AM
braden :
I do hope to connect and collaborate with student groups from other universities though, tons of value through those relationships!!
3/24/2017 6:27 AM
braden :
If you�d like to meet, here�s my availability for the next week, let me know when would work best for you! https://www.when2meet.com/?6111623-GHMGY
3/24/2017 6:31 AM
braden :
not sure you�ve used when2meet, but if yannick or benjamindeleener would like to join in, we could all fill out our availabilities through that link to figure out the best time to meet as a group
3/24/2017 11:24 AM
benjamindeleener :
braden Of course you can create your website with the template you prefer. Wordpress is a great one and very easy to update with news.
That�s amazing you already found a few students interested! I agree that keeping the momentum with the students you have is very important, probably more than getting more people involved. Trying to create a small group that is very passionated and willing to help is key and the rest will follow.
3/24/2017 11:30 AM
benjamindeleener :
Concerning faculty support, I agree that it can be difficult to get them involved. However, your student clubs is first a way of learning, by project and with the help of other clubs around the world, and faculty members are very sensitive to the learning aspect. Try to expose them to this, as well as showing how getting students closer to the technology will help them increase to students potential for graduate studies (faculty members are always looking for good graduate students). Don�t try to involve too much faculty members, except if you have specific requirements from the university, because they are usually very busy. However, they can give you great advice, and sometimes access to technologies.
3/24/2017 11:31 AM
benjamindeleener :
Building a video with students experience is a amazing idea!
3/24/2017 11:33 AM
benjamindeleener :
And as Sayan said, if not professor gives you support, try getting in touch with graduate students. They will provide you with advices, help you getting started, and maybe sometimes convince their supervisor to get involved (I cite the example of PolyCortex, at Polytechnique Montreal, which had a few graduate students that helped at the very beginning).
3/24/2017 11:42 AM
benjamindeleener :
I would be happy to do a meeting discussing with you some point about running a club and the directions you could take. I�ll update my availabilities on when2meet.
3/24/2017 11:49 AM
benjamindeleener :
and we will try to get more student clubs in this call
3/24/2017 12:07 PM
yannick :
Damn I need to stop going to bed before 2am, that's when the convos are happening!
- I'd like to know if McGill people have any insights on how they approached support from Faculty and/or Grad Students. /CC sonia, abhishek
- At ETS, with SynapsETS (CC jp.portant.etsmtl, nicomaque.jette), the strategy was to approach Profs working with EEG (& MEG), because they would understand the value of "hacking" on EEG devices during undergrad years and develop skills on electrophys, cog sci, machine learning, signal processing, etc.
Don't try to involve them necessarily at the beginning, but get their "support" as it can unlock doors down the road (the more senior and/or decorated the Prof, the more weight (s)he can have). Don't try to have them "do stuff" at the beginning or being actively involved, that will come once you have some momentum. Meet them, explain the idea and you'll see you will be your allies and help you a lot and the others at least will know that you exist and can redirect people your way.
The first pain point for researchers / research labs that NTX student clubs can help with, is to speed up the "hands on" learning curve. Neurotech-related fields are multidisciplinary and you now require lots of skills to be efficient and researchers start to see that more than ever before. (e.g. Grad students with little experience in programming when starting their master/PhD) The second pain point is recruitment, finding (good) candidates to join their lab. Such a student club can help in that regard.
- Grad Students can be key. They might have limited time, but their knowledge makes every minute they give to the club very valuable! Lots of them, working in related fields wish that such clubs existed when they where undergrads themselves and will see the value and will want to help (benjamindeleener & I would be good examples I guess, both PhD students)
Hope that helps!
(we'll try to summarize all that feedback (& insights) in the documentation as it might help many student clubs. Thanks braden & sayan_faraz for starting the conversation! 🙂
3/24/2017 12:16 PM
yannick :
PS: No approach is the 100% best as the situation & university & ecosystem & people will be different from one student club to another. And because it all started last year, we're still all learning what works and help and what doesn't. The best thing we can do is exactly what you guys are doing and share experiences and build from one another. (my two cents)
3/24/2017 1:12 PM
hectordomorozco :
Thanks everyone for the tips and tricks. I am not paying for it; the reason I�m asking for a price is because my undergrads are applying for club status at Mac, so McMaster is paying for it. They need to hand in a yearly budget and they asked me how much should they allocate (from the money that mcmaster is potentially giving them) to the building of a website.
braden, the way we�ve been doing it around here is that I actually have been getting on board more people from the health sciences and engineering departments than they psych ones. Usually psych people are not interested in this kind of projects (sadly).
If there is a meeting, I would love to be part of it, if you guys are Ok with this 😄
3/26/2017 11:45 PM
sayan_faraz :
anyone have tips on sponsorship? would love to hear!
3/27/2017 5:40 AM
braden :
It seems like benjamindeleener and I are free Tuesday at 5:30pm EST, would you be free hectordomorozco?
3/27/2017 7:44 PM
hectordomorozco :
braden Yes, I�m in 🙂
3/27/2017 9:18 PM
benjamindeleener :
that�s a date!
3/28/2017 12:52 PM
hectordomorozco :
benjamindeleener Excellent. Will it be through Skype? My skype user is hector.dom.orozco
3/28/2017 12:55 PM
benjamindeleener :
Skype is good. I�ll let braden start the call. <!channel> if there is any one else interested in joining the call, feel free to tell us!
3/28/2017 12:58 PM
hectordomorozco :
So it is going to be 5:30 EST, right?
3/28/2017 1:24 PM
benjamindeleener :
hectordomorozco yes
3/28/2017 9:24 PM
braden :
Anyone else is welcome to join our conversation!
3/28/2017 9:24 PM
braden :
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/umail.iu.edu/neurotechxstudentclubs
3/28/2017 9:28 PM
braden :
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3/28/2017 10:23 PM
braden :
thanks to everyone who contributed to the conversation, it was nice meeting you all!
3/28/2017 11:41 PM
hectordomorozco :
Yes indeed, it was great to see you guys 🙂
3/29/2017 12:38 AM
benjamindeleener :
Thank you all for the great conversation!
4/18/2017 11:16 AM
yannick :
Hey rnsriram, welcome on board! If you have any question related to student clubs, do not hesitate to ask it here and some awesome people shall magically answer.
Awesome people, meet Roshan Sriram from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) starting a neurotech student club, joining the growing NTX family.
4/18/2017 3:46 PM
nehabhutani :
Are there any student clubs in Montreal? Would like to join or start one!
4/18/2017 3:48 PM
benjamindeleener :
Hi nehabhutani, there are plenty. Take a look at http://synapsets.etsmtl.ca/ (ETS), http://polycortex.polymtl.ca/ (Polytechnique), http://bsys.ca/index.html (Concordia) and https://www.facebook.com/McGillNeurotech (McGill)
4/18/2017 3:49 PM
nehabhutani :
thanks!
4/19/2017 2:04 AM
wanfuse123 :
hi! I am wondering if anyone has seen this https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-03-brain-tranquility.html and wondering if neural stimulation might apply to this meditation center of the brain...thoughts anyone?
4/19/2017 7:33 AM
eliricker :
March for Science in San Francisco this Saturday, April 22: want to put Muse headsets on people? Teach people about EEG? We've still got space at our booth -- ping me if you're interested in volunteering as a researcher or a participant!
4/20/2017 4:06 PM
rnsriram :
yannick Thank you for the wonderful introduction. Hi everyone! I am really excited to begin my adventure into NeuroTech and related technologies and am glad I have the opportunity to collobarate with passionate individuals such as myself. I believe strongly in the humanitarian/societal benefits this technology can bring about and as a result I am highly motivated to push the limits of what is possible in this space. I am still in the process of formalizing the club and as any questions come up I will surely reach out.
4/23/2017 7:37 PM
omrin :
Hi, I'm Omri and I will be starting my Master's in Computational Neuroscience this Fall and really looking forward to bring this club to Queen's University, Kingston. Still in very preliminary stages but should have all summer to get the paperwork together
5/10/2017 10:43 PM
yannick :
Hey giuliosuprig the Student Club Competition PDF should now be accessible for everyone, you can try again and let me know 🙂
5/10/2017 10:50 PM
giuliosuprig :
thanks!
5/18/2017 4:53 PM
yannick :
hey nickpanetta you might want to check out: https://neurotechx.github.io/studentclubs/
5/18/2017 4:53 PM
yannick :
What university are you at?
5/18/2017 4:55 PM
nickpanetta :
Thanks so much yannick I'll check it out!
5/27/2017 5:39 PM
benjamindeleener :
<!channel> Call to all neurohackers of Montreal that possess a Muse headband: PolyCortex is participating to the Festival Eurêka as an science outreach to young children. The festival will be hold from June 9 to June 11 and will welcome more than 30000 people at the Vieux-Port. PolyCortex is participating and is going to propose a concentration boat racing game but they would need more Muse headband to be sure to hold all the weekend. If you have a Muse headband and would like to lend some, please contact me as soon as possible. It would be very appreciated!
6/5/2017 3:44 PM
benjamindeleener :
<!channel> Would you like to get involved in #NeuroTechnology and make a difference with your marketing and/or writing skills?
--> Join the NeuroTechX Student Clubs Initiative!
We are currently looking for someone to help with Marketing, Social Media, Promotion of Events, Projects, Activities, etc. Undergrads are working on <#C3PRKC41K|neurotech> projects in many universities and we need your help to showcase them to the world: http://neurotechx.com/opportunities/studentclubs-marketing.html
We are also looking for someone to help with our Student Club Blog, writing short posts about the initiative, the student clubs, the field, etc. http://neurotechx.com/opportunities/studentclubs-marketing.html
If this sounds like something you�d be interested in, please contact me on Slack or at mailto:[email protected]|[email protected] (these are volunteer positions)
6/7/2017 11:51 PM
sayan_faraz :
has anyone used the Push the World impl of OpenBCI software? how is it? is it responsive and all?
6/9/2017 2:53 AM
harris :
sayan_faraz aj would be a great person to direct any Push the world questions to
6/9/2017 3:31 AM
sayan_faraz :
harris thanks :D AJ's talking to me on the Push the World channel :D
6/9/2017 5:27 PM
yannick :
Is PolyCortex at Festival Eureka! today? Pix or its fake.
6/9/2017 6:47 PM
benjamindeleener :
So popular, no time to take pictures!!
6/9/2017 6:54 PM
yannick :
graeme check how the Muse headbands are being used by PolyCortex at Eureka! Festival (big science fair with 70,000+ people going over the weekend)
Racing boats with the Muse. I love it. Can�t wait to check it out tomorrow.
8/30/2017 2:56 PM
endoxaneuro :
Hello all, here is my recent article please read 😉& share https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/ai-and-human-stupidity
9/1/2017 9:25 PM
mattherich :
The writeup and Q&A with PolyCortex regarding the event above has been published: http://bit.ly/ntxsc-polycortex1
9/6/2017 3:15 PM
benjamindeleener :
Message to all students on this <!channel>:
We need your feedback on the competition date!
As you know, this year, the NeuroTechX competition will be online with an open challenge and a fixed challenge, and we are very excited about it!
But we also understand the struggle of getting a club started on a new academic year and we are wondering what would be the best time for the competition to happen.
We would like your feedback on this, so please fill the following survey to let us know about the dates that would be best for your club.
Link to the survey: https://goo.gl/forms/3ChGZgsxOS3FNeKn2
9/6/2017 3:18 PM
sayan_faraz :
When should we respond to this by? I will consult my exec team about this.
9/6/2017 3:20 PM
benjamindeleener :
sayan_faraz It would be nice to have your feedback by the end of September, and ideally before September 23
9/6/2017 4:22 PM
hectordomorozco :
I will share this with MACtion potential people. Thanks for doing this, Ben!
9/6/2017 8:49 PM
sydneyneurotechx :
oh a completely unrelated note <!channel> . Please help me in congratulating benjamindeleener in successfully defending his PHD
9/6/2017 8:54 PM
benjamindeleener :
yannick sydneyneurotechx Thank you 😄 I feel like an expert now. Totally different than before
9/6/2017 11:51 PM
sayan_faraz :
benjamindeleener congratulations :D
9/14/2017 5:03 PM
vermanikhil96 :
Hello everyone,
This is Nikhil Verma, a Biomedical undergraduate from India.
I am currently working on Brain Computer Interface. My aim is to print a number by extracting it from EEG signal.
9/14/2017 5:03 PM
vermanikhil96 :
Is there anyone who is working on the same?
9/14/2017 7:26 PM
yannick :
Hey vermanikhil96, you can look at P300 Spellers. That would give you 1 way of doing it.
9/14/2017 7:27 PM
yannick :
Just YouTube P300 Speller BCI and you will find many cool examples.
9/14/2017 7:29 PM
vermanikhil96 :
Thanks a lot 🙂
9/19/2017 2:54 PM
omrin :
Opening club announcement: Queen's University - Merlin Neurotechnology is up and running. Check out our website at http://queensneurotech.ca|queensneurotech.ca and stay tuned for our progress throughout the year.
9/19/2017 7:04 PM
yannick :
I love it! This is awesome
9/20/2017 5:11 PM
sayan_faraz :
omrin love the name! Love that article ❤️ (we use it for onboarding now lool)
10/12/2017 1:54 AM
omrin :
Merlin @Queen's is making progress. Ran our first few experiments
10/12/2017 2:41 AM
karl.delorme :
where can i find the brain figther unity game on neurotechx i heard its open source and i wanted to add a calibration part
10/13/2017 1:04 PM
bryan :
I founded and am currently President of the Neuroscience Student Organization at Florida Atlantic University: https://fau.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/neuroscienceso
Can we be a student chapter of Neurotechx as well? We can't change the name of the club, but certainly have a group of members that are into neurotech, some doing BCI already as part of their thesis (like myself)
10/13/2017 7:40 PM
benjamindeleener :
Hey Bryan, Congrats on the constitution! I am very happy to see a new club appearing in our ecosystem. Did you take a look at the NTX Student Clubs website: https://neurotechx.github.io/studentclubs/?
10/13/2017 7:41 PM
benjamindeleener :
You can definitely be a student club in our organization. You might be interested in taking part of the competition if some of your club contains undergraduate students.
10/17/2017 1:31 PM
benjamindeleener :
Education Changes the World! Check out our latest Q&A with Sayan Faraz and his team from NeurotechUofT student club to see how they push neurotech innovation at the University of Toronto: https://medium.com/neurotechx/q-a-with-neurotechuoft-d46c06f15126
11/8/2017 10:45 AM
pia.michel :
Is there a student club in the Netherlands or people interested in getting together?
11/9/2017 4:31 AM
yannick :
There is no Student Club in the Netherlands, but it would be awesome. Are you a student there?
11/9/2017 7:09 AM
pia.michel :
Yes, I�m at the University of Amsterdam
11/9/2017 11:51 AM
agustnr64 :
Hello everyone,
My name is Agustin I am a biomedical engineering student in barcelona, Spain. From today my group and I are part of the neurotechX community. We recently founded a student club at Pompue Fabra University, our club is called Neuromads (I leave a link at the end).
We are starting to develop projects and we want to participate in neurotechX competitions, we are very motivated and we want to work 🙂
I hope we can collaborate together in the future.
regards
11/13/2017 8:49 PM
omrin :
For the fixed challenge competition, the instructions say "home-made acquisition board" do they mean fully homemade i.e. design and print the PCB in a microfabrication lab or can we buy a raspberry pi and work from there?
11/13/2017 8:56 PM
yannick :
You can use existing parts. We are currently trying to define a fair evaluation grid as we want to encourage people to both have a good signal quality and learn the electronics behind it. That being said, it is hard to do everything from scratch and get a good quality. So we want the students to pick their own fight. Either they buy parts and have a better signal or they do it themselves and might have a poorer quality.
The burden will be on the evaluation jury to come up with a fair evaluation system.
We�ll try to send more information soon.
11/13/2017 9:01 PM
yannick :
benjamindeleener might have something to add ^
11/14/2017 3:01 AM
benjamindeleener :
omrin I agree with Yannick. Getting a good EEG signal using a custom homemade electronic board is difficult but I strongly encourage you to try the hard way. What you will get with the Raspberry Pi or an Arduino will be very limited and you will not be able to improve it much. Starting with EEG-friendly acquisition chips (i.e., high-resolution analog-digital converter) that are available on the market (like the ADS1299) is a good option if you don�t know where to start with EEG acquisition. If you want to learn a lot in a short amount of time, try building your own EEG acquisition system with custom filters and amplifiers. We can provide you with some references and books on biosignal acquisition if you need some inspiration and guidance.
11/14/2017 3:18 PM
omrin :
Thanks benjamindeleener, that clarifies this project a lot. I'll look on the awesome-bci resource to see which books would be good to read.