The partnership benefits the New Jersey students, who are learning accessible design and to create with empathy and imagination, as well as the blind and visually-impaired kids, who not only get to play the games but have a voice in the process.
A prototype of the game Risk by the Mountain Lakes (NJ) High School students, working in collaboration with the town’s public library makerspace. |
Many libraries across the country created programs around the idea. In Mountain Lakes, the projects would not be shared with visually impaired and blind people but it was a day of making and challenging the typical way of thinking, a that forced these tweens to consider someone else’s challenges and create a very specific solution.
For Mountain Lakes Public Library Makerspace manager Ian Matty, the event was a good…