What follows is our official exit interview with Amanda Sari Perez, who just recently left Ann Arbor for Pittsburgh. MARK: OK, let’s start at the beginning. What’s your name, where were you born, and what kind of kid were you? AMANDA: All right then. My name is Amanda. Or Salamanda. Or YakYak. Or AmandaPanda. I […]
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Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Amanda Sari Perez
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Uncategorized Also tagged All Hands Active, Amanda Sari Perez, amputation, Bilal Ghalib, biomedical engineering, Breaking Protocol, Burning Man, Care Bears, China, DIY, Float Fest, Fool Moon, geodesic dome, Hong Kong, Houston, Indonesia, insects, kayaks, Kentucky, Lakes of Fire, Maker Works, Monticello, paralysis, Pittsburgh, rehabilitation, shopping cart races, Syncytium, Texas, Trudi Cooper, yaks 5 Comments
U-M undergrads to launch Makeathon with A2Awesome grant
A few days ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded $1,000 in cash to University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering undergraduate Beverly Chou (seen below accepting the award from A2 Awesome founder Lisa Dengiz) to help fund the launch of an event that she and fellow students are calling Makeathon. After our meeting, I took the […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Awesome Foundation, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized Also tagged 3D printing, A2Awesome, art & design, Awesome Foundation, Beverly Chou, collaboration, College of Creative Studies, competitions, Detroit, entrepreneurship, Facebook, Google, hackathons, Hardware Hacks, IDEO, interdisciplinary, kids today, Lisa Dengiz, Makeathon, making stuff, mechanical engineering, micro-philanthropy, MIT, MPowered, produce design, students, Sydney Bigelow, TechShop Detroit, University of Michigan 5 Comments