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April 11-14 – Empower2Make

I was blessed to have the opportunity to fly to Virginia and take part in a weekend make event where 5 teams each took on a challenge to develop a solution for a person living with a disability. The projects ranged from a column of shelves the swivel out to enable a young wheelchair user to access more of his things to an active muscle sensor that can vibrate muscles that are tense when they shouldn’t be (this is for therapeutic treatment to enable a young lady to make progress in her therapy sessions and provides feedback to her therapists).

The teams got together and started working on their projects before the opening presentation, motivated makers.
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April 1 – Into Louisiana

We woke up in Winnie Texas and had a slow morning. Breakfast, scooter rides, and some cleaning up before we hit the road again. This was our last day in Texas and as we were driving towards Louisiana I reflected with Jen that we hadn’t had any BBQ. I was a little bummed about that, but we’ll make more of a point to eat more regional meals. I had a destination in mind that I had found on iOverlander, Lake Martin. Before we got there we did need to refill the propane tank so we stopped at a propane supplier and had to fill up our tiny tank. (1 gallon was $3.25)

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March 31 – Space Center Houston

Playing catchup with these blogs as I’m writing this one on April 24th and though I remember these activities, the nuances of the days have left my mind and the desire to be caught up is compelling me to share some photos and only short written narratives. Sorry, but maybe you’ll enjoy this more 😉

Morning chats with mom. Our kids are so blessed to have such a loving, caring, and passionate role model.
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