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INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN/PROJECT UNICORN

I guess you could say I have been designing all my life. Working with Mr. David really sparked my interest in design and how things are built and how they work. But what I didn’t realize was that all those experiences with prosthetics set me up to learn how my thoughts on design could lead toward some really nontraditional ideas. One of my travel opportunities gave me a chance to spend a week in San Francisco for a camp called Superhero Cyborgs. I was invited to join four other kids with limb differences to learn about design. I didn’t even realize I loved design before I had this experience! The camp’s codirector, Kate Ganim, issued a challenge that took my life in directions I never could have imagined. We were asked a simple question: If you could build something for your little arm that helped you become a superhero, what kind of superhero would you be?