ATLAS

Assistive
Technology 
Laboratory
at
Stanford

Thank you for your course participation! - By all accounts, this year's course was a huge success. It was another year of excellent presentations, tours, an assistive technology faire, and a film screening. The student teams' presentations, project results, final reports, and course evaluations were well executed, professionally written, and very positive. Thanks to all who contributed: students, community members, guest presenters, carpool drivers, project suggestors, and team mentors.

If you missed a lecture, browse to the Lecture Schedule webpage, scroll down and click on the lecture of interest. Near the bottom of the page you will see the Lecture Material section which has links to the slides, photos, weblinks, and lecture video.

Aging 2.0 Global Startup Search

The Aging 2.0 Global Startup Search is an annual program designed to search the world for the best aging-focused startups. The competition kicks off with a series of pitch events in Chapter cities around the world - hundreds of startups apply to compete and local teams carefully select the participating startups and judges for each event. The winning startup from each local pitch event moves forward to an online voting round, where the general public and panel of expert judges select the finalists. The final pitch event will take place during the Aging 2.0 OPTIMIZE Conference in San Francisco on November 14-15, 2017.

The technology startups in and around Palo Alto continue to relentlessly pursue the vision of a networked, and integrated digital personal care service system environment that promises to deliver social engagment, logistical efficieny, and care productivity improvement. Come and see first hand how these entreprenuers are working to connect older people everywere and improve their lives.

Follow this link to see the list of the eight competing startups and to get your tickets.

When: Thursday, April 13th - 5:30 - 8:00pm

Where: Avenidas, 450 Bryant Street, Palo Alto

SCI / PVA Awareness Fair

The Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) is hosting their annual Spinal Cord Injury / Paralyzed Veterans of America (SCI / PVA) Awareness Fair on Tuesday, April 18th from 11am to 2pm at the SCI/D Center at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in Building 7 Dining Room, Courtyard, and between Building 7 and Modular Building 1 (MB-1). This event brings organizations together from the community that provide services to veterans and/or individuals with mobility impairments. This year's theme is "Improving Quality of Life through Innovation & Recreation". The Fair is free and open to all. For more information contact Rebecca Sherman at 650/858-3936.

Cool Product Expo (CPX)

CPX is a one-day exhibition of cutting-edge products organized by the Product Design and Manufacturing Club at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Every year exhibitors come to Stanford University to demonstrate ground-breaking hardware, software, consumer tech, wearables, thinkables, driveables - anything and everything one can imagine.

CPX is a unique opportunity for companies and startups with cool products to interact with Stanford students and the surrounding community of alumni, press, and investors. Here's the CPX website and a video of CPX 2013 (3:16) to give you an idea of what the event is like. This event is free and open to the public. No advance registration is required.

When: Wednesday, April 19th, Noon to 6pm

Where: Knight Management Center

8th Annual Adaptive Arts Film Festival

This event features local and international films by, for, and about individuals of all abilities and is sponsored by the College of Adaptive Arts Film Festival as a part of its 9th Annual Celebration - Differing Abilities.

The Festival is scheduled for Sunday, April 23rd from 2 to 5pm at the Bluelight Cinemas 5 Cupertino Oaks, 21275 Stevens Creek Blvd. in Cupertino with a Meet-and-Greet following the event at the nearby Hobee's Restaurant.

Disability Film Festival

The Magical Bridge Foundation is thrilled to co-host the Superfest Showcase: International Disability Film Festival on Saturday, May 6th from 2pm to 5pm at the Veterans Memorial Building, 1455 Madison Ave. in Redwood City.

For over 30 years, this annual festival has celebrated cutting-edge cinema that portrays disability in all its diverse, complex, and engaging facets. Superfest is proud to be one of the few festivals, in the US or abroad, that is completely accessible to disabled filmgoers. All films are screened with captioning and audio-descriptions.

This is a free family-friendly event. Visit the Eventbrite page for a schedule of the films and to register.

Seating is limited, so please RSVP soon!