LEARN & APPLY NEW SKILLS - MAKE FRIENDS - CHANGE LIVES ! Hackcessible is a national user-led Make-a-thon accelerating accessible technology innovation for all
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📯We're delighted that disabled musician Chris Griffiths's request to create an adapted French horn stand was accepted as a challenge by @hackcessible21, and the solution presented by the team of students at @EngineeringNCL was crowned the winner! bit.ly/3HWTlzX
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#Hackcessible21 was a challenging make-a-thon to organise this year due to constraints imposed by the pandemic. However, using remote collaboration and communication tools these brilliant user-led teams from all across the UK and the US did not disappoint…lnkd.in/dqhDWUET
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After being injured during the conflict in Syria and fleeing to Jordan, Nasser fell into depression
Almost ten years later, he’s now trying to inspire hope among other refugees with disabilities as one of our community volunteers
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I'm VERY proud to be a judge for @hackcessible21 alongside @paulhewtweet & @Elaine_Gosling. I'll be reading the submissions carefully this weekend but first impressions are excellent! Check out the real, personal challenges the teams have been solving at hackcessible.org/challenges-…
ALT Three members of a team exploring the positioning of a communication aid used by a man pictured sitting down (as part of Hackcessible).
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#Hackcessible 2021 final day. Along with their award make-a-thon winners get to sport this rare and highly prized t-shirt:) #IDPWD2021 @hackcessible21
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#Hackcessible 2021 make-a-thon day 2 at the iForge. Iterative design - make - test in action.
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Proud to be one of the mentors for @hackcessible21 hackcessible.org/mentors/
The students, the projects and the organisers all seem amazing and I'm really looking forward to seeing what the students and challengers can achieve together #ThisisEngineering
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#IsItOK that there's only one week left to sign up for Hackcessible '21, our #a11y makeathon? Join us online to launch our challenges on 29th October at 7pm - sign up at hackcessible.org.
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As the care crisis deepens, clearly we have significant workforce related challenges here:
Are there ways in which rapidly evolving innovation in areas such as smart homes, assistive robotics and AI enabled remote monitoring hel…lnkd.in/dGdWFZ3y lnkd.in/d3r7mTfT
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Anyone interested in helping me with this challenge?
Another #Hackcessible challenge. Are you a student near Bedfordshire? Do you want to work with @ccquad and Duke on this #a11y challenge? Find out more at hackcessible.org #biglifehack #makersgonnamake @uniofbeds @BedsSU @CranfieldUni @DysonCentreCamb @yourcambridgesu
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The Challengers are coming in for @hackcessible21, but we're looking for more! Visit hackcessible.org to submit a challenge to support innovation & develop solutions.
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Our next #a11y challenger for #hackcessible21 is @spamags.Submit ur challenge @ hackcessible.org & we'll try 2 match u with #Students in your area. @TheOHMITrust @RemapUK @RossCare @BcuSociety @WarwickEngineer @geekchloe @textilesBCU @WEDesignMake youtu.be/tciZlrQu_wQ
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📢This is a great opportunity for our student engineers!
'Hackcessible is a national user-led Make-a-thon accelerating accessible technology innovation for all'. ⚙️
Challenge Event: 29 October
Make-a-thon: 3-5 December
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Introducing our first challenger... youtu.be/BIvdiwotjp0 Wherever u r across UK & beyond, submit ur challenge @ hackcessible.org & we'll try to match u with students in your area. @EngineeringNCL @OTNorthumbriaSU @NCLstudents @NUstudents @TheOHMITrust @RemapUK @RossCare
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@hackcessible21 are back with their huge make-a-thon putting persons with disabilities at the core of the design and development of assistive tech bringing challengers and end-users together to challenge the impossible.
Supported by @RossCare
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A clip from @BBCLookNorth last night, we are so proud of our kids #teamlimbbo #limbdifferenceawareness a huge thank you to every who helped to make this happen x
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Thanks very much to @lesleyWhittaker for sending us this advert through - great to see more amputees in the spotlight well done @seasaltclothing for this fab campaign !
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The next round of the AI in Health & Care Award is getting off the gound now, with support for promising innovations at every stage of development - from concepts to market ready solutions! To find out more register for one of the webinars coming up: lnkd.in/djiDSPC
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Bose Frames work with Microsoft's navigation tech for the blind
Glad to see this collaboration, I flagged this use case when the bose were announced engadget.com/2020/02/27/bose…
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Healthtech & mainstream consumer tech increasingly coming together in interesting ways. This could become a key element in shortening the health innovation pipeline from concept to adoption. Health service research, regulatory & p…lnkd.in/eacGCgg lnkd.in/esFzZP7
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MIT exemplifies (orders of magnitude more than any other university I've been associated with) how academic research & entrepreneurship can work together synergistically to truly make an impact in the real world! What makes it so different? lnkd.in/dUhXbxs