Tikkun Olam Makers

  • Vanderbilt University

    Students tap engineering and empathy skills to help kids with special needs

    Inspired to make a child’s life better through engineering and design, students from Vanderbilt, occupational therapists and professional engineers worked for three days straight—with little sleep—to build inventions that would make life a little easier for a child with special physical needs. Seven teams from diverse backgrounds took part in… Read More

    Nov. 18, 2019

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt makeathon helps Hawaii youngster create custom guitar pick holder

    Inspired to make a child’s life better through engineering and design, students from Vanderbilt, occupational therapists and professional engineers worked for three days straight—with little sleep—to build inventions that would make life a little easier for a child with special physical needs. Seven teams from diverse backgrounds took part in… Read More

    Jan. 23, 2019

  • Vanderbilt University

    Weekend inventors will build tech for people with disabilities

    Inspired to make a child’s life better through engineering and design, students from Vanderbilt, occupational therapists and professional engineers worked for three days straight—with little sleep—to build inventions that would make life a little easier for a child with special physical needs. Seven teams from diverse backgrounds took part in… Read More

    Jan. 18, 2019