Learning, innovating, and making an impact deserve to be recognized. The International Institute for Biosensing (IIB) digital badges celebrate the people who engage with our programs, expand their knowledge, build new skills, and contribute to a community shaping the future of biosensing, health, and innovation. From Future Health Innovators to badges recognizing participation and leadership across our lecture series, workshops, educational programs, and special initiatives, each badge represents a meaningful step in your learning journey. Collect your badges, showcase your achievements, and let your IIB journey tell the story of where your curiosity can take you.
IIB Digital Badges
The "Future Health Innovator Badge" doesn't only show you have attended the camp, it also shows you have become an innovator.
What if your ideas could help shape the future of healthcare?
The Future Health Innovator Badge is a digital credential awarded by the University of Minnesota’s International Institute for Biosensing (IIB) to students who successfully complete the Future Health Innovators Summer Camp.
This badge recognizes more than participation. It celebrates your ability to identify real-world health challenges, build and test sensing technologies, work as a team, analyze data, and communicate your ideas to the world.
View the Future Health Innovator Badge on Credly
What does earning the badge mean?
During the Future Health Innovators Summer Camp, you move from problem → idea → prototype → data → solution → pitch.
By earning the badge, you demonstrate experience in:
- 🔬 Biosensing & biomedical technology
- 💡 Design thinking & problem solving
- 🧪 Hands-on experimentation
- 🛠️ Rapid prototyping
- 📊 Data collection & analysis
- 🧠 Scientific thinking
- 🤝 Teamwork & collaboration
- 🎤 Scientific storytelling & public speaking
- ❤️ Health and healthcare innovation
- 🌎 Using technology to address real-world challenges
The badge is officially recognized as a foundational learning credential and is issued through Credly by the University of Minnesota.
You earned it. Now show it.
Your Future Health Innovator Badge is a shareable digital credential that you can add to your:
LinkedIn • Resume • College Applications • Portfolio • Email Signature • Social Media
It provides a verified way to show schools, mentors, future employers, and other opportunities that you have experience going beyond the classroom and building solutions to real-world problems.
What did you accomplish?
To earn your badge, you took part in an intensive, hands-on innovation experience and presented your team's Grand Pitch to a panel of professionals.
Your work was evaluated on skills including:
Problem Definition → Sensor Build → Data Collection → Troubleshooting → Data Analysis → Scientific Storytelling → Public Speaking → Collaboration
These are not just skills for a summer camp.
They are skills that future scientists, engineers, physicians, entrepreneurs, researchers, and innovators use every day.
Your first step toward becoming a Future Health Innovator
The future of health will need people who can think across disciplines—people who can connect biology, medicine, engineering, data, technology, and creativity.
That's what being a Future Health Innovator is about.
Your badge is a reminder that you have already taken that first step.
Imagine the problem.
Build the solution.
Test the idea.
Tell your story.
Change the future.
Ready to share your achievement?
Once awarded, your badge can be accessed through Credly and shared with your professional and academic networks.
Add it to your LinkedIn profile. Put it on your resume. Share your achievement.
Because your future doesn't start someday.
It starts with what you build today.