What is Biomedical Informatics? You tell us!

2022 Winners
1st Place
- Manya Suresh
- Columbus North High School
2nd Place
- Red Fish
- Penn High School
3rd Place
- DNAta
- Bloomington South High School
Honorable Mention
- Team Lukas
- Penn High School
Honorable Mention
- The Biomedical Informaticists Show
- Columbus North High School
Honorable Mention
- AncientStraits
- Columbus North High School
About the challenge
- Competition opens
- September 12, 2022
- Competition closes
- October 21, 2022
- Winners announced
- October 26, 2022
The Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering in Indianapolis and its Biomedical Informatics Club are excited to offer high school students across the United States the opportunity to win prizes, or a scholarship, by participating in Luddy's BMI Challenge.
- The challenge
- Answer the following prompt: What is Biomedical Informatics? How is Biomedical Informatics shaping the world around you?
- How
- Submit a video, graphic, flier, or creative writing. We're excited to see your submissions. Teams of one to three students may submit together. Prizes are awarded individually.
We're excited to see your real-world applications, addressing challenges in the field. Show us how you can explain biomedical informatics in a creative way. You can choose to create a video, a flyer, or a small write-up.
Prizes & Awards
1st Place
- $1000 scholarship
- $100
2nd Place
- $750 scholarship
- $75
3rd Place
- $500 scholarship
- $50
Honorable Mention
- $25
All submissions will receive a gift from the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering in the mail, regardless of placement.
Scholarships awarded to students admitted and enrolled in a Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at IUPUI bachelor's degree program. Scholarships and prizes are per individual student on each team.
About the Biomedical Informatics program
The Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Informatics from the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at IUPUI is first of its kind in the Midwest. This degree offers an amazing opportunity for highly motivated undergraduates to be involved in research and data related to human health.
Students select a biomedical informatics course of study, focusing on one of these specialties:
- Premed
- Bioinformatics
- Digital Health
- Health Informatics