Hetince Zhao and UR Connected team wins Forbes Competition

BME Senior Hetince Zhao and the other members of the UR Connected team took first place and $5,000 in the Charles and Janet Forbes Entrepreneurial Competition. The team plans to address loneliness and isolation in senior populations by aggregating community involvement resources onto a single platform, offering a web portal for service providers, along with an easy to navigate user interface that older adults can access as both a website and a mobile application.