Maker Faire Syracuse 2024
ARISE Adaptive Design
Home: New York, United States
ARISE Adaptive Design (AAD) works with community volunteers and individuals with disabilities to create highly customized, low-cost adaptive equipment that provides individuals with disabilities greater opportunity in all areas of life.
https://www.ariseinc.org/services/adaptive-design/
Makers
Connor McGough
Connor is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology where he received his bachelor’s degree in industrial design. Since 2017, Connor has served as the Program Coordinator of ARISE Adaptive Design where he leads an eclectic, interprofessional group of community volunteers who work along with individuals with disabilities and their families. Together they design and build specialized adaptations to allow the participants to reach their full potential in daily living, therapy, education, work, and recreation. Connor has drawn upon his training in industrial design as well as his lived experience as someone with a disability to develop and grow the Adaptive Design program throughout Central New York. Connor has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at both Rochester Institute of Technology and Syracuse University’s School of Design.
Tracy McGough
As a maker since youth, Tracy Fleming has employed a gadgeteering spirit in all aspects of his life. From high school where he developed 'Center of Gravity R
