In July 2020, the SmithVent team of Smith engineering alums, faculty, staff, and friends won the CoVent-19 Challenge, an international competition to design an open-source ventilator to address the global ventilator shortage. This special episode features 13 members of the SmithVent team (Adrienne Horne, Alex Widstrand, Astrid Landeau, Chelsea Hinds-Charles, Dan Lin, Devin Carroll, Eleanor Ory, Eric Jensen, Luca DeGroot, Nick Howe, Nora Paul-Schultz, Sangye Kazi, and Susannah Howe), along with guest facilitator Emily Blatter Boyer, as they share their memories and takeaways five years later.

Details of the SmithVent team's winning ventilator design itself are available at tinyurl.com/smithvent. After the competition, the ...