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  • 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

    Weekend inventors will build tech for people with disabilities

    2018 finale of the Tikkun Olam Makers makeathon. Tikkun Olam Makers at Vanderbilt to host 48-hour makeathon starting today Teams of makers will race the clock this weekend to create innovative solutions to the problems facing those living with disabilities in Nashville and beyond. Beginning Friday, Jan. 18, at 5… Read More

    Jan. 18, 2019