11/17
This week the Luv Michael team went to visit the Luv Michael facility in person. I was unfortunately unable to go at the last minute, but the VIP Luv Michael Team met afterwards and they caught me up on everything they learned while they were there. We discussed the project regarding a gift bag holder and tool that can be used to steady the bags and make it easier for the staff to tie them. We discussed some ideas and how we might go about this, and decided we will each ideate and then meet to iterate and discuss.
11/10
I spent a lot of time this week just trying to get as many switches printed as possible for the switch adapting workshop with MMC that is happening in December. I also bought one of the toys that is adapted in the workshops to try it out myself, so that when I hopefully run another workshop at some point next month I will know what I am doing!
11/3
This week the Luv Michael team met with the Developing Assistive Technology class to discuss what they have been working on in class, and to learn more about the projects and needs they have learned about from Luv Michael. We discussed the handful of projects that were proposed to the Developing Assistive Technology team, and they told us about the work they have done so far on the projects they are working on in class. We discussed logistics as well, and we came to the conclusion that it would make the most sense for the Developing Assistive Technology team and the EAT VIP team to work on different projects separately, given various constraints on schedules and it would also result in more solutions being solved!
10/20
While I didn’t get to much this week, I worked on finding organizations to reach out to and wrote some emails to connect with them as partners to work with on some events, and I am hoping to hear back soon!
10/13
I got to meet Patrick, Vivi, and Haley this week, and spoke with them about how we can collaborate with printing out TOM prints. Patrick told us about some of the things he wanted to work on as well, and I walked them through the spreadsheet I put together with the prints and specs that Patrick can work on.
10/6
This week I have been in touch with the TKU people to coordinate a meeting so that we can collaborate with Patrick on printing the TOM files for the Ability Project. I am meeting with Haley, Vivi, and Patrick at Tandon on Friday to get connected with them and to get started on the project for Patrick. I also met with some of the people who have reached out to me about wanting to be a part of the TOM leadership (@Bella:) ). I am finalizing the Student Activity Board new club development application to get TOM to be an official campus organization, so I have been writing the mission statement, event plans, constitution, and more. I also reached out to the people from Level the Curve to see how I can get involved in their projects.
9/29
This week I spent a good chunk of my time looking into accessible templates for my blog. I have learned (minimally) about accessibility UX/UI principles before, but I went a bit further into learning more about that. I was reminded also about the Deque accessibility course that I started a while ago that I kind of fell off the wagon with… but I am trying to get back into that and hoping to stay with it and complete the course! I also worked to compile and organize the TOM products that are just 3D printed components that Patrick could work on printing that we can use to display in the Ability Project Museum! I compiled the links to the files along with the details that are needed to streamline the process and to give Patrick the essential information he needs to print the files, such as infill, material, and more. I am also working on compiling a bunch of TOM promotional materials for outreach, and trying to ask people to look them over to make sure the mission is clear when I send it out/post it!
9/22
done this week:
- Google form for leadership team
- Makerspace registration
- NYU club application
Student Interest Groups:
- UX/UX
- Disability Studies
- Engineering
- Social Impact
- Occupational/ Physical therapy