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Young Biomechanics Institutions (YBI)
Co-Founder & Content Strategy Lead
YBI is an international, student-led STEM organisation focused on biomedical engineering and biomechanics education. I help lead content strategy across chapters, shaping how technical material is taught to students who are encountering the field for the first time.
- Countries
- 15+Countries
- Members
- 100+Members
- Chapters
- 5+Chapters
- Followers
- 1,000+Followers
- Views
- 650K+Views
About YBI
Young Biomechanics Institutions (YBI) is a student-led international nonprofit STEM organization I co-founded in August 2024. We focus on making biomedical engineering, biomechanics, biotechnology, medicine, and healthcare innovation more accessible to school students through educational content, workshops, structured courses, chapters, and international collaboration.
YBI has grown to 100+ members, 5+ active chapters, students across 15+ countries, 1,000+ followers, and 500,000+ cumulative viewers, with workshops conducted in India and the United States.
Why We Built It
We created YBI because subjects such as biology, physics, mathematics, and engineering are often taught separately, even though fields like biomedical engineering, neural engineering, medical devices, biotechnology, and AI in medicine depend on all of them working together.
Our goal is to make these fields easier to explore without requiring students to already have access to expensive programs or research networks. YBI therefore focuses on free educational resources, workshops, and structured learning opportunities that students can access regardless of where they live.
My Role
I serve as Co-Founder and Content Strategy Lead, helping shape YBI’s scientific content, curriculum, workshops, partnerships, chapter expansion, and international team. A major part of my role is researching complex biomedical topics and translating them into material that is both scientifically accurate and understandable to school students.
I have also helped coordinate members across different countries and time zones and spearheaded STEM workshops across India. Through YBI, I have learned that understanding science and being able to teach it clearly are two very different skills.
STEM Workshops
YBI conducts STEM workshops designed to introduce school students to areas such as biomedical engineering, medicine, biotechnology, healthcare innovation, and engineering applications to the human body. Workshop activity has included India and the United States, with additional outreach being developed in Hyderabad.
Rather than relying only on lectures, our workshops use discussion, practical activities, case studies, research-based learning, and problem solving. Leading these sessions has strengthened my ability to explain scientific concepts to students with very different levels of prior knowledge.
International Team
YBI has developed into an international network of 100+ members across 15+ countries, with 5+ active chapters. Our team includes students from India, the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, the UAE, Morocco, Poland, Türkiye, and several other countries.
Working across different time zones, cultures, school systems, and communication styles has taught me to become a more flexible leader. It has also shown me that even when students share the same interests, they can approach the same scientific or organizational problem in very different ways.
Biomedical Engineering Curriculum
I helped develop YBI’s free six-module biomedical engineering course, covering Biomedical Engineering, Medical Devices, AI in Medicine, Neural Engineering, Biotechnology, and Research Design. The course combines readings, quizzes, practical activities, case studies, and research-based learning.
The goal is not to turn a high-school student into a biomedical engineer in six modules, but to help them understand what the field actually involves, discover which areas interest them, and learn how they can explore those interests further.
Collaborations & Partnerships
YBI has collaborated with student-led STEM and healthcare organizations including MediQuillis Fort McMurray, Yen.Global, and Ascend.STEM. These partnerships have helped us share educational resources, expand outreach, support collaborative workshops, and connect students interested in biomedical engineering, biotechnology, medicine, and research.
These collaborations have also taught me that partnerships work best when neither organization tries to dominate the other. The most effective projects come from identifying where both groups’ strengths and goals overlap and building from there.