[Vanhackspace] Talk on ALS Design Competition/Project

[Luke Closs]

I think this could be interesting. Find a free Thursday on vancal.org
and then let us know you want that day and we'll add you to the
calendar.

Cheers,
Luke


On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:28 PM,  <starrant at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Hackers,
>
> Some of you may remember a few months back seeing an email seeking help with a
> student project intended to be entered in an Engineering Design Competition to
> help persons living with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease).......
>
> I'm very pleased to report that, through the vanhackspace mailing list, our
> project group was able to make contact with a skilled volunteer programmer and
> go on to complete a very successful project.
>
> If there is an interest, members of our project group would like to make a brief
> and casual presentation of our project at an upcoming hackspace night.   The
> competition we entered our project in is open to entries from independent (non-
> school-affiliated) individuals and groups, is for a very good cause helping
> severely disabled persons, and offers substantial cash prizes for entries that
> are judged to be an innovation helpful to persons with ALS.  Some of you might
> wish to enter a project in next year's competition, and we would like to tell
> you how to go about it!
>
> If the person or persons who schedule and organize event nights at the hackspace
> would get back to me, I would like to set up a mutually convenient time to do a
> little presentation and show off our project.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen Tarrant
> BCIT Biomedical Engineering
> VersaCom Communication System Project Group
>
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