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During the COVID pandemic, Jora Singh found himself spending many more hours on the computer — his classes initially moved online, he had started to teach himself how to code. After a while, he noticed he was having wrist pain and back pain from the long hours at the keyboard. He started thinking of solutions.
Ever since attending a build event with his family in February, Ethan has been a dedicated Makers Making Change volunteer.
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 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.
Our Creative Employment Options team will be joining the Vancouver School Board at the Trout Lake Community Center on May 4th for a workshop for parents and their children with high and low functioning autism. We will be helping the youth to develop employment readiness skills for independence.