As normal life splintered and students scattered around the world, Courtnie Chan ’20, an officer in the student club Invention Corps, told her comrades to take it easy. Drop your work, if needed — mental health comes first.
Nicole Brown and Annalise Phillips, staff members at the UC Berkeley Library and partners on one of the club’s projects, echoed the call. Feel free to put this down, they said, and pick it up when life seems whole.
Thanks, but no thanks, the students responded.
Founded at Berkeley in 2017, Invention Corps is a dynamic group of around 40 students who combine diverse skills and backgrounds to tackle real-world problems — from building a mobile app to make museums feel more accessible to designing kiosks for fresh water in a rural part of Vietnam. This spring, club members turned their talents to Moffitt Library’s Makerspace, where they helped design a…
