RISE

Healthcare

The venture designs a unique mobile application (RISE) to facilitate community rehabilitation of stroke patients. It aims to expand and improve current rehabilitation services by providing cost-effective programmes to stroke patients. Also, it aims to reduce patients’ waiting time while offering more personalised rehabilitation programmes tailored to individual patient’s needs.

Brainy Training Kit

Aging, Health Care

Dementia is an irreversible condition. By 2040, one in three people will be elderly. In 2039, more than 330,000 people in Hong Kong are expected to be diagnosed with dementia. With a team of registered occupational therapists, Brainy Training Kits uses their professional knowledge to design a training kit for people with dementia. The goal is to slow the progression of the disease and alleviate the burden on caregivers and medical staff.

Ms. Angie Zhou

Education Specialist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Angie Zhou is an Education Specialist at MIT App Inventor. She was the founder and CEO of Dreams Come True in Shenzhen, where she developed online coding courses for kids. She also has previous curriculum development, teaching and staff training experience at First Code Academy in Hong Kong.