On Saturday, June 1st, 2013, MOUSE Corps joined over 150 other amazing young people from all over NYC at The New York Public Library – Bartos Forum for the 5th annual Emoti-Con!
The four MOUSE Corps Legacy groups — JoyPix, ArtSquared, Extend-a-Arm, and Mixing Buddy — created displays that showcased their design process as well as their final prototypes. MOUSE Corps spent much of the day pitching their projects to everyone who came by their tables, including fellow student presenters from other MOUSE Squads, Radio Rookies, The Point, Girls Write Now, and many others, as well as members of the judging panal and even Adam Balkin from NY1! It was inspiring to see so many talented, dedicated young people from different organizations from all over New York City get the chance to interact with one another and show off all of their amazing, ingenious projects!
One of the highlights of the day for MOUSE Corps was that our partners from UCP were able to join us for much of the afternoon at Emoti-con and see the prototypes that they inspired and helped conceptualize and design!
ArtSquared and Mixing buddy were both selected as finalists and invited to come up on stage and pitch their projects to the entire room. Afterwards ArtSquared was given the Point of View Award for bringing a unique perspective to Assistive Technology Design, and Mixing buddy won both Most Innovative and Crowd Favorite for their unique design and killer stage pitch! All four Legacy Groups had outstanding projects this year. The entire MOUSE Corps team has a LOT to be proud of!
For more information about our Emoticon adventures, click here!
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