LipSync Update: Faces of the Access Makeathon and Access Challenges
Meet the faces of Access Makeathon – the persons with disabilities, whom teams will form around to directly address their needs.
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For the last days of 2016, the LipSync team is working hard to “freeze” the design ahead of the Access Makeathon on January 27th.
There’s one thing, though, that we’re still trying to nail down — the joystick.
In partnership with Rick Hansen Foundation, SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology, TechSoup NetSquared, Tom Global, UBC Women in Engineering, and UBC Young Women in Engineering and Science, we are organizing a 48 hour event called the Access Makeathon from January 27th to 29th, 2017.
Last week, we welcomed two new, albeit temporary, members to our team — Angela and Kelly. For the week, we had two high school students come and actually make some LipSyncs.
On Tuesday, November 22nd Neil Squire Society Director of Developemnt, Chad Leaman, will be one of seven speakers at the Community Knowledge Exchange (CKX) City Series: Vancouver at Science World.