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Catherine Austin
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Thesis: We are making sensory boards for High Horses to help with occupational therapy. Our goal is to make a sensory board to help someone open a bottle cap. We have different sized caps with different handles on the top to help them open it, they can start on the easiest one and work their way down to the hardest one. Inside the bottles will be a prize like a candy or toy so they will want to open it.

Feedback: Some feedback that we got was that we should add more color to make it more interesting and inviting, we also need to add directions so people know what they need to do.

Next Steps: Our next steps are to laser cut directions into it so people know what they need to do, paint the bottles and caps to make it more interesting, and connect the caps and strings to the board so they don't fall off. 

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Forrest Yeager
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Thesis: My project is a therapeutic sensory board, assisting people in opening caps on bottles of different shapes and sizes and levels of difficulty. Ours helps people with opening circular container caps, which if you think about it you do every day, so it will definitely help people become more independent. This relates to our prompt because it is used to help people become more independent. Ours helps people with opening circular container caps, which if you think about it you do every day, so it will definitely help people become more independent.


Feedback from high horses: We got lots of positive feedback about our project, but one of the things we were told to work on is to make the boards more colorful and inviting for people to use. The other feedback we received was to have  simple directions on our project so that people who might not understand the point of it when they see it will instantly know what it is. 


Next Steps: My next step is to laser cut directions, something like an arrow right next to the cap moving in the way you have to turn the cap. My next action is to paint the caps different colors, to make the board more welcoming for someone to use it.