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I have had the pleasure of volunteering at the BMES expo on October 7th and 9th, 2015 for University of South Florida (booth #922-924) at Tampa Conventional Centre, Tampa, Florida. I wanted to volunteer because I was keen to find out about the research people are conducting in the market and other universities and to talk to aspiring students to inspire them to do research in the Biomedical engineering field. On the first day we just had to set up the booth and to learn how the thing were supposed to be kept and how to make other people feel welcoming, but on the 9th I got to talk to many other people about the research that our professors are performing at the university and got to know about their expectations and about some other people about the research they are doing and what they expect from our university. …show more content…

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