On April 23, 2025, the Neuromechanics & Mobility Lab celebrated National Biomechanics Day (NBD) at the VA Puget Sound. Katie Landwehr-Prakel, alongside fellow biomechanics researchers with the Ingraham Lab, and Center for Limb Loss and MoBility (CLiMB) hosted over 75 students from a local high school. NBD is a world-wide celebration of Biomechanics in its many forms for high school students and teachers.
Katie, Annika, Siena, and Zijie hosted a station called “MyoDino: A Muscle Powered Dinosaur Game”. While discussing how muscle activity is measured in our research, students could play a “no-internet” Google chrome dinosaur jumping game on a computer, controlled by a stick-on arm surface EMG sensor.