Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Magic Wheelchair at 3dXperience”.
Uh first off, can you tell me who are you and what did you bring to the solid works? 3D experience Expo thingy yeah, so I am Christine dman, I’m the executive director of magic wheelchair and I brought a booth to show what we do and talk a little bit more about adaptive buttons and inclusion and autonomy that comes with costumes. Okay, tell me about this: what is Magic, wheelchair, so magic wheelchair is a nonprofit organization that builds inclusive costume for kids and young adults who use wheelchairs so they’re totally customized to fit their wheelchair, their interest and their personnel. That’S awesome. Can you give me just some kind of examples of what do you mean by a costume like for a wheelchair yeah? So if you want to be a princess for Halloween will convert your wheelchair to a princess, carriage or a throne, um being pulled by cats? I mean you name it, the kids, the kids are the bosses, they call the shots, so you never know what they’re going to ask for I mean sometimes it’s what you see in the movies and other times, it’s completely from their imagination. That’S fantastic um! So, let’s see here is there a build? You can think of.
That would be like a surprise for people cuz, I’m sure, there’s like a lot of common requests. Is there something you can think of that like stood out as maybe shocking or surprising yeah I mean we. We expect some of the movie characters that are coming out on each season. I think the most surprising ones are like the oneoff music requests or anything scary. So we did a Metallica build um. We just recently got a request for a Run DMC boom box.
I me I love music requests um. We also have some kids who just want bloody and scary, and I like that too, just cuz. It kind of pushes the boundary a little bit of what’s acceptable and we like we like to uphold whatever their imaginations are wanting beautiful, and these are. These are free to the kids. So how? How do you make that happen? How do you get funding for something like this yeah, so with every bill that we do? We create a crowd funding page around that uh around the kiddos, so they can tell their story what they’re about um? We also Elevate the build team and fundways within that Community.
We also ask for sponsors and different donors um, because during the build we cover the cost of all the materials we just help. The builders make it happen and the builders themselves are like different volunteers from different areas. All of Builders are volunteers, some are home.
Builders, some are cosplayers. We have education programs that take stem into schools, s acre spaces, which are some of our things. It’S wonderful, okay. So if somebody wants to volunteer or if they want to donate money or if they know someone who needs a costume, they want to sign up. Where would they find more information? Yes, so if they visit magic, whe.org, there’s a button for each of those volunteer, donate or apply, you can nominate a Kido perfect. Thank you.
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