Empowering All Abilities

Collaborating with

teachers, students, and community members

to create DIY assistive technologies

Teachers

Lesson plans and projects

Student Projects

Fun things to make

Making in New Mexico

Workshops for Educators
and the General Public

Nexus Abilities at Jefferson Middle School

1 hackathon sign

Our partner, Casa Angelica, is committed to empower, educate and form young people with pervasive needs, accompanying their growth process, calling forth their gifts and enabling them to develop fully their potential.

2 makers making change sign

Our partner, Makers Making change, connects people with disabilities to volunteer makers who can build affordable assistive technologies.

3 switches dislay

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

4 toys display

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

5 pegboards

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

6 alice behind pegboards

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

7 jonathon and aaron helping students with switches.

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

8 alice showing switches to student and parent.

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

9 alice show student how modify switch.

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

10 alice closeup with student in gray jacket.

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

11 students lined up at table

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

12 aaron showing toys to student.

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

13 alice talking to student in gray shirt and parent.

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

14 jonathon helping a student in a red shirt.

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

15 student in gray jacket looking at sign.

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

16 arron talking to parents about toys.

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

17 alice talking to student in gray winter coat and hat.

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.

18 aaron at end of table.

Participants made accessible switches used with adapted toys.