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We鈥檙e excited to announce our first annual Holiday Hackathon at The Amazing Brentwood in Burnaby, BC. As part of this year鈥檚 Hacking for the Holidays campaign, on Friday, November 22nd, we鈥檙e going to switch adapt 250 toys to donate to kids with disabilities in Canada. And we need your help to do it!
From September to December for our third annual聽Hacking for the Holidays聽campaign, we鈥檙e engaging volunteers 鈥 students, corporate partners, and other community members 鈥 in聽80聽build events across聽10聽provinces to help us adapt and donate聽2,000聽toys and switches to families and clinicians all over Canada.
鈥淪he has some sense of independence when she can play with this, she doesn鈥檛 have to rely on any of us to turn it on for her.”
On November 21st, over 20 students from Winnipeg鈥檚 Met schools traded in their pens and pencils for soldering irons as they worked together to build assistive switches and adapt RC car toys for children with disabilities as part of Neil Squire鈥檚 #HackingForTheHolidays campaign.
On November 15th, SaskPower staff in Saskatoon came together to work on a noble cause 鈥 adapting toys for children with disabilities.