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Earlier this year, students from Queen’s Biomedical Innovation Team (QBiT) and Queen’s BioMechatronics Team (QBMeT) at Queen’s University took part in a design sprint with Neil Squire’s Makers Making Change program.
The Makers Making Change Research and Development team is currently working on a number of projects this summer. Here’s a rundown of the projects in the works, and some opportunities for you to get involved.
The students at Templeton Secondary School’s STEM program had a hefty task at hand. First, they needed to figure out how to switch adapt a toy, taking it apart and modifying it so that a child with a disability could more easily play with it using an adaptive switch. Then, they needed to make instructions to help future makers adapt that same toy.
For one patient at Foothills Medical Centre, Adaptive Gaming is not just for entertainment, it’s used for physiotherapy. CTV Calgary made a great report on our Makers Making Change program’s GAME Checkpoint initiative.
“I can honestly say I would not be able to work as efficiently as I can now without the LipSync. I haven’t found anything that works even close to the LipSync, allowing me to not only work, but connect with my peers and community virtually,” Ean says.