1. ILR Outreach Programming Highlight: Yang-Tan Institute Makeathon/Hackathon April 21-23, 2017, New Lab, Brooklyn Navy Yard
Susanne Bruyere (smb23), Director
K. Lisa Yang and Hock E Tan Institute
on Employment and Disability
ILR School
ILR Outreach Meeting
Thursday, June 1, 2017
401 Physical Sciences Building, Ithaca
Room A, ILR NYC conference Center

2. Presentation Overview
Purpose of the event
Collaborating partners
Funding
Details of the event approach
Outcomes and next steps

3. Event Purpose
Build partnerships across Cornell University colleges, departments, and locations (Ithaca and NYC), and with technology and community partners
More effectively diffuse disability initiatives across Cornell campus interests
Raise YTI’s profile among technology-interested organizations and individual experts
Engage students across the campus in a disability-focused event

4. Partnerships Within Cornell – External to Cornell – Yang-Tan Institute
Cornell Tech
Office of engagement Initiatives
External to Cornell –
Tikkun Olam Makers (Israel and NYC)
Mayor’s Office For People with Disabilities
IBM Watson
Verizon
MakerBot and aproximately 15 other organizations

5. Funding
Competitive RFP process sponsored by YTI to support across-campus initiatives on disability
was awarded initial seed funding to support the Hackathon event
Tikkum Olam Makers secured funding to support Makeathon facility location at Brooklyn New Lab
Other funding from a wide variety of sponsors and collaborating organizations
Significant in-kind match time from Cornell co-sponsoring organizations

6. The Process Partnership identification/network building over 19 months
Confirmation of partners (late fall, 2016)
Logistics and planning January – April, 2017
Maker space site identification, accessibility review, and confirmation
Solicitation of matching funding
Identification of “challenges” and interested persons with disabilities
Solicitation of students volunteers for maker/hacker teams
Identification of technical expert volunteers to guide teams
Rental of needed additional maker equipment
Engagement of across CU PR for promotion and coverage
Event implementation and next steps

7. Examples of In-kind Support
Management of logistics for –
Identifying and securing facility
Identifying vendor sources of equipment
Site health and safely review
Participant food and transportation
Contract and fiscal oversight
Access (ADA compliance) onsite audit
Website creation to solicit “challenges” and students
Review of “challenges” submitted
Public relations and media outreach
Video creation and editing
Student project follow-along and mentoring

8. Event Highlights by Video
Video created by Peter Quinn, YTI Web team

9. Office of Engagement Initiatives
password: hack
This video was created by Insights International, Inc. ( Ann Michel and Philip Wilde, under a grant from the Cornell University Office of engagement Initiatives; grant application submitted by David Brewer, YTI, and Ami Stuart,

10. Outcomes/Next Steps
Summarizing video to partners and sponsors for their use
Documentation of Maker products for online open source access for future makers and entrepreneurs
Report to Office of Engagement Initiatives
Cornell team follow-up debrief about lessons learned
Support of individual student Hackathon team to assist them in moving their prototype to proof of concept phase
Across Cornell team consideration of next initiatives