SoBRO TEC Final Presentations
This evening I had the pleasure of attending the end-of-year SoBRO TEC final presentations. SoBRO TEC is an NSF funded program and a collaboration between three organizations – SoBRO, Vision Education & Media and Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). I’ve attended the student presentations every year and have seen amazing projects using Cricket Robotics, Google SketchUp and more.
This semester the students worked with sustainability and cardboard carpentry.
Students visited the Adaptive Design Association, which builds adaptive equipment for children with disabilities out of readily available materials, such as cardboard. They’re an incredible organization. Adaptive Design founder, Alex Truesdell, and staff member Lille Troelstrup, attended this evening’s presentations and both were really impressed with the student work.
In the photo above students Victor Filpo, Franchell Polanco, Timothy Nwachukwu, and Gio Madden present their projects, which include a cardboard coffee table, a cardboard lamp, and even a cardboard couch that can support the weight of several people. Also seen in the photos are their incredible instructors, Myoshi Primo, SoBRO Youth Worker and Eduardo Bringas, Technology Mentor.
Congratulations to all the students, faculty and staff on tremendous work.
- Marianne