What we might work on in Portland if we all got together - planning for 2018 conference?


• Begin planning a global educational e-NABLE conference in summer 2018 that is planned around ISTE in Chicago. Individuals attending ISTE, would also be part of our target audience for the conference, as there will be e-NABLE in education sessions offered and a variety of 3D printing and other tech vendors invited to participate.

• Discussing and making a plan for how some of this funding could be used as a matching fund for travel costs for e-NABLE Chapter leaders and valuable members of the global community, who would be able to offer workshops, share data from their chapters and recipients and processes for how they help their local recipients in their countries.

• Summer 2017 for conference in 2018 - Discussing how we might bring Liam and his family (the first child to ever get a 3D printed hand in the world and the catalyst of the e-NABLE movement)  to the conference as the guest of honor and to celebrate the 5 year anniversary of e-NABLE.

• SUMMER 2017 - Working on creating an e-NABLE based curriculum that will invite schools across the world to do scientific data and research to test the current devices, their function and their ability to hold up in different climates due to heat and humidity differences, drop testing and materials testing.

• 2018 Conference - Those attending the will be able to present their findings from research/data collection in poster sessions and encouraged to create documentaries of their data collection process, to be shared during the conference and then used as educational models and tutorials for other schools and groups to follow as well.

• 2018 Conference - Hand-a-thon - much like Hopkins - inviting families with limb differences as well as medical professionals to attend, learn about 3D printing from design to set up to actual printing their own devices and modifying them via Fushion 360 and then an assembling session as separate but cohesive sessions. (First they attend the class/talk on how 3d printers work, meet with a 3D printing expert or two who can show them which printers might work best (I know a few of those people. ;) LOL) and then attend a class on Fushion 360 or Tinkercad or both, then walk them through the set up a print steps and then finally have a group build.

* 2018 - Conference - Have an opening ceremonies event - with representatives from as many chapters and countries that can attend and a show of flags from each country - places like USA - schools and chapters could walk behind the US flag - with their school flags or city/state flags. It would be an amazing sight to see. I watched this happen at the FIRST Robotics Championship in St Luis and I was bawling my head off in the crowd - imagining what this woudl look like as en e-NABLE event.

• 2018 - conference - Invite current device users and new device users to meet at a meet and greet/ kid focused fun activities event, just for them.

• 2018 - Conference - Invite chapters to create 3-5 minute documentaries about their work to be showcased throughout the event so they can show us their recipients, their impact and make it feel like a truly global experience. In different languages.

• 2018 Conference - Have a space where current device users can go to give feedback on device uses, pros and cons, their honest thoughts on them and perhaps be paired with an e-NABLE Volunteer designer where they can help design and improve their own devices or follow in the footsteps of Kidmob and work with a designer team (perhaps this can be Student led - with middle schoo/high school/university and FIRST Robotics teams) to create their own “Just for fun” water gun, video game controller, chase the dog around the yard - non “Hand” but oh so fun prosthetics designs.