What: Middle School students, High School & College helpers make items for the disabled
When: Wednesday, July 19, 6 to 8pm and Tuesday, July 25, 6 to 8pm.
Where: Ivy Tech Community College Evansville, rooms 169 & 171
Background: Participating middle school students will attend a camp learning about how automation and robotics technology can help those who have disabilities. Taught by Ivy Tech Program Chair Donna Zimmerman and others, students will learn how to make two different items that will help the disabled and construct them. Items being made include making a tap light into a big button and modifying stuffed animals so they can be actuated with the buttons instead of the small buttons that come on the stuffed animals and are difficult to push if one doesn’t have the fine motor skills to do so. The tap light is wired to the toy so that the person can press anywhere on the big button to make the toy sing and dance. At the conclusion of the camps, the modified toys will be donated to local agencies. There is no cost for campers to attend camp.
Contact at the event:Â Donna Zimmerman, associate professor of Technology and program chair for Advanced Automation and Robotics Technology
