Student-Led Engineering · University of Washington

All Your Health Data. One Powerful Hub.

Fitness Tech is a student-led engineering organization at the University of Washington built around one idea: an athlete's health data should live in one place, and it should work for them. We centralize that data into a single hub — and design and build the custom devices that feed it, from breadboard to custom PCB, entirely by students.

Centralize
Engineer
Elevate
Motion stream
0Hz
Sensor axes
0DOF
Project teams
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Live rep count
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BioBand · accelerometer Z-axis
MyFitnessTech App
Live on the App Store

MyFitnessTech

The hub. A cross-platform Flutter app that pulls workouts, nutrition, sleep, hydration, and biometrics into one profile, with an AI coaching layer that reasons across all of it. It stands entirely on its own — download it today and log everything by hand. Our devices just make that logging automatic.

Live on the iOS App Store · Android in testing

Download on the App Store
01 — What we do

Centralize. Engineer. Elevate.

Everything we do falls under three connected principles. Individually, none of them is unique. Together, they are the organization.

🎯

Centralize

One hub for everything. Every device we build streams into MyFitnessTech, alongside everything a user logs by hand. One profile, one complete picture — not a dozen disconnected apps.

🔧

Engineer

We design our own hardware around the questions we want answered. Circuit design, firmware, PCB layout, 3D-printed enclosures — the full stack is student-built, so the full data pipeline is transparent.

📈

Elevate

Data only matters when it becomes a decision. Our coaching layer reasons across every stream at once to surface why performance moved, what to change, and what is working.

At a Glance

The short version of who we are

Founded
October 30, 2025
Status
Active Registered Student Organization, UW Seattle
President & Founder
Andrew Gui
Vice President
Ignacio Garcia
Faculty / RSO Advisor
Prof. Sep Makhsous
Live product
MyFitnessTech — iOS App Store; Android in testing
Hardware in development
BioBand (biometrics + motion) · SipSync (hydration)
Project teams
Research · Hardware · Software & AI · Business & Marketing
Find us
02 — The ecosystem

One Hub, A Growing Set of Devices

Each device exists because it answers a data question the hub cannot answer without it — not because the hardware was interesting on its own.

Future devices get chosen the same way: ask what data would most improve an athlete's picture — or what a coach has told us they cannot currently see — then engineer the device that captures it.

Explore the Projects
03 — Who we build for

One Ecosystem, Three Audiences

The same centralized data serves each of them differently

🚶

Everyday People

All health data in one place, plus coaching that actually knows you — hydration, activity, recovery, and progress without the guesswork or the subscription wall.

🏋️

Athletes

Device-driven tracking that turns training into measurable data: reps, heart rate, effort, hydration, and recovery. Find what's working, fix what isn't, and improve against evidence instead of feel.

📋

Coaches & Teams

Live visualization across the whole roster — fatigue, effort, readiness, and workload. Spot problems before they become injuries, at student-team prices rather than pro-lab prices.

Our current focus: athlete teams and their coaches

Our near-term effort is aimed squarely at athlete teams — UW club and varsity programs, campus recreation groups, and small training organizations. The approach is deliberately bottom-up: before we design another device, we ask coaches what they actually want to know about their athletes, and we build toward those answers.

See the questions we're asking coaches →

Our Mission

Centralize health data into one hub and engineer research-driven devices around it — helping everyday people train smarter, athletes unlock more gains, and coaches lead their teams to more wins.

04 — How we're organized

Four Project Teams

Open to all majors and experience levels — the work genuinely requires all of them

🔬

Research

Defines the question before the hardware team builds the answer — literature review, testing protocols, and analysis of data we collect ourselves.

  • Literature review
  • Testing protocol design
  • Coach & athlete interviews
  • Data collection & analysis
  • Academic documentation
⚙️

Hardware Development

Takes a device from loose wires on a breadboard to a fabricated custom PCB in a printed enclosure.

  • Circuit design & prototyping
  • ESP32 embedded firmware
  • Sensor integration & testing
  • KiCad PCB layout
  • Soldering & assembly
  • Fusion 360 enclosures & 3D printing
💻

Software & AI

Builds the hub itself — the MyFitnessTech app, the BLE protocols that feed it, and the models that turn raw signal into coaching.

  • Flutter app development
  • BLE communication protocols
  • Data pipelines & cloud integration
  • Exercise classification models
  • Personalized coaching logic
💼

Business & Marketing

Keeps the hardware funded and the org growing — because a student organization that can't fund its next PCB run stalls.

  • Funding: STF, grants, sponsorships
  • Team & community partnerships
  • Social media & content
  • Events & recruitment

A Staged Hardware Pipeline

Every device moves through the same de-risked path — each stage validates assumptions before we commit money to the next

01
Breadboard

Sensors and microcontroller wired loose, data streaming end to end. Proves the measurement is possible at all.

02
Protoboard

Soldered build in a wearable form factor, paired to the app. Proves it works off the bench, on a body.

03
Custom PCB

KiCad schematic and layout, professionally fabricated and assembled. Proves it can be made repeatably and small.

04
Enclosure

3D-printed housing in Fusion 360, ergonomics and durability testing. Proves people will actually wear or carry it.

05
Validation

Integration, user testing, benchmarking, research data collection. Proves the numbers can be trusted.

05 — The people

Leadership Team

Building Fitness Tech with passionate student leaders

Andrew Gui

Andrew Gui

President & Founder

[email protected]

Ignacio Garcia

Ignacio Garcia

Vice President

[email protected]

T

Treasurer

Open Position

Emery Trevino

Emery Trevino

Secretary

[email protected]

MO

Marketing & Outreach Coordinator

Open Position

BD

Director of Business Development

Open Position

Advisors

Faculty guiding our organization

Sep Makhsous

Prof. Sep Makhsous

Faculty / RSO Advisor

[email protected]

Project Leadership

Department leads driving our technical initiatives

Jake Woodvine

Jake Woodvine

Hardware Lead

[email protected]

Palak Agarwal

Palak Agarwal

Software Lead

[email protected]

Ramya Suresh

Ramya Suresh

Research Director

[email protected]

Moouyoun Kim

Moouyoun Kim

Marketing & Treasurer Assistant

[email protected]

Harshita Raja

Harshita Raja

Research Assistant

[email protected]

AL

AI/ML Lead

Open Position

Open Positions

Available Roles

  • Treasurer
  • Marketing & Outreach Coordinator
  • Director of Business Development
  • AI/ML Lead
  • Design Lead
  • Hardware & firmware contributors

Requirements

  • ✓ Currently enrolled UW Seattle student
  • ✓ 3.0 minimum cumulative GPA
  • ✓ Contribute to a team deliverable
  • ✓ No prior hardware or coding experience required
We don't just learn about technology.
We build it, test it, and ship it.

Get Involved!

An electrical engineer designs the PCB. A CS student writes the app. A data scientist trains the model. A bioengineering student designs the validation study. A business student secures the funding. Every skill has a place.

Membership

  • Currently enrolled UW Seattle student
  • Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA
  • Open to all majors and experience levels
  • General meetings weekly; project teams meet twice weekly
  • No prior hardware or coding experience required
Apply to Join

Start on Discord for day-to-day collaboration • HuskyLink and Instagram for events

20+
Active Members Goal
4
Project Teams
5
Projects in the Portfolio
5
Stages Per Device