Here are our prospective clients.

Team 2. The Rockers: Steigman, Kramm, Palacio, Prue, Goode
   Disabled adults are unable to actively initiate/sustain rocking in a rocking chair for leisure enjoyment. A device is need to activate and sustain the rocking for a controllable period of time.

Team 3. Foot Assisted Toothbrush: (F.A.T.): Overbey, Killen, Hall, Watson
   A. is an adult (40) female with severe cerebral palsy living with her parents. She is lacks normal muscle control and needs assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs.) Due to her involuntary and uncontrolled movements A. is unable to hold a toothbrush and coordinate the brushing action. She needs a toothbrush she does not have to hold, perhaps attached to a base or the wall, and which would vibrate allowing her to become more independent in this area.

Team 4. Uplifting Innovations: Pittner, Antoniazzi, Phillips, Breedlove, Geddie
    K. is a bright and capable three year old, born without arms, who is competent in using her feet and attends nursery school. Her classroom environment has been adapted to help her including a bar stool which places her feet at table height so that all table activities are available to her. The major drawback to the bar stool is that a teacher is required to help K. onto or down from the stool. To further increase her independence, K. needs a chair which she could lower and then raise to table height via some type of foot pedal. Because of her young age it would be helpful to design the chair so it could "grow" with K.

Team 5. Head Above the Rest: Yarnell, Frano, Frazine, Rosenzweig
   Wheelchair bound people with poor head control lack adequate headrests. The existing headrest causes problems which can produce injury to the neck and forehead/facial area. A new or re-designed adjustable headrest is needed which will prevent injury and provide support to the lower neck and occiput.

Team 6. The Bookworms: Arreseigor, Moore, Pope, Azene, DelMaestro
    Elementary school children with severe physical limitations cannot hold and view a book independently. A portable book holder with an adjustable viewing angle holder is needed to secure the book yet permit/enable the child to turn the pages.

Team 7. Office Solutions that "Work": Hodge, Hill, Carroll, Adderson
   C. is a disabled adult paraplegic with the use of one arm. She needs a functional office desk which will provide space for files accessible from the top allowing ease of file retrieval and return with limited arm range of motion.

Team 8. Innovative Office Solutions (IOS): Petrovich, Maender, Guillory, Green
   F. C. is an adult female who has very short hands and arms limiting her range of reach, finger dexterity and grip. She works as a receptionist and needs a device that will help her "write" messages and press the buttons on the phone system to transfer calls. She also need a receptionist-type chair whose height she can control.

Team 10. JAZZ COMM: Meyer, Colberg, Tedesco, Martin
   V. is a 70 year old woman with a rare disease - dropped head syndrome or isolated neck extensor myopathy (INEM), a recently described neuromuscular disorder. As the name implies, she is unable to hold her neck upright, which causes postural complications and major difficulties when performing everyday activities, such as walking. She has tried orthopedic braces but these have resulted in an inability to move her jaw normally as when feeding herself. She needs a device to help support her head which can be worn unobtrusively with regular clothing.

Team 11. Mojo Risers: Atkinson, Khoobehi, Wade, Miller, Kieffer
   Russ, a physically-challenged teenager, needs help to get into the rear seat of his parent's Chevy Suburban. A mechanism to lift Russ from his walker to the rear seat-level is needed. This will relieve his mom of having to physically lift and place him in the car herself.

Team 12. Bright Ideas: Kramer, Hura, Giliberti, Carmen
   People with severe motor limitations and range of motion deficits are unable to turn light switches on and off in their homes. There are no readily available commercial proximity switches made for this task. A wall mount substitute proximity type switch is needed.

Here are a few of last year's:

Team 2: T. T. F. K. A. S.: Scott Ferreira, Brad Markowsky, Carolyn Reimann
The AUTO-ROCKER
Our client is a four year old male with moderate autism. We are designing and constructing an automated rocking chair to help keephim calm.

Team 3: Correctional Orthopaedic Research and Development (C.O.R.D.): Tuong Nguyen, Noah Sherry, Trevor Snyder, Leslie Koppel
Foot-Operated Feeding Device
C.O.R.D. is a developing company currently working to design a foot-controlledself feeding device for a client with cerebral palsy.

Team 4: DDMJ: Mandy Flannery, Dawn Butler, Jessica Guillot, Doc Nguyen
The DDMJ Dollhouse
We are working to develop a dollhouse for children with cerebral palsy in a special education class at Little Woods Elementary School. The house will help develop the students' hand-eye coordination, visual perception and social interaction.

Team 6: Engineering In Action: Misty Estapa, Zach St. Martin, Kristi Boudreaux, Vicki Hogan, Regina Conrad
The SUPER WDC-2000 Wheelchair Desktop Clipboard First In Show, 1997
Our client suffered a spinal injury and now has limited motion in herupper extremities. We are designing a wheelchair desktop clipboard to giveher more independence in her kindergarten classroom.

Team 7: ARVD: D. J. Verret, Vipul Kapoor, Rahul Baijal, Alex Minter
MULTI-PURPOSE TRICYCLE
We are attempting to assist an autistic person improve his upper body strength through a multipurpose tricycle that also serves a recreationalpurpose.