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Long Island Children's Museum Exhibits

Changes & Challenges
Content development, design, fabrication and installation of an exhibit on disability awareness. In the street scene pictured here, visitors can experience what it's like for a person with a disability to accomplish everyday tasks such as a using a wheelchair on different surfaces, driving a car using adapted hand controls, or using a braille map.
Detail photo of guide dog information and an adapted minivan that was modified with a ramp and hand controls for the accelerator and brakes.
 
Detail photo of the bus shelter-explains what it is like for people with all kinds of disabilities to take the bus
Changes & Challenges
Content development, design, fabrication and installation of an exhibit on disability awareness. The bedroom and bathroom of the Changes & Challenges house feature a bathtub with a door for the mobility impaired, a bed with a vibrating alarm clock for the hearing impaired, and an interactive game that demonstrates different methods people with visual impairments might use to match their clothes.
Detail of clothes matching game
Demonstrates the different methods people with visual impairments use to match their clothes
A bathtub with a door helps people with mobility impairments
Changes & Challenges
Content development, design, fabrication and installation of an exhibit on disability awareness. The Changes & Challenges school demonstrates various methods and tools used in the classroom to help children cope with a variety of physical and learning disabilities. 
Changes & Challenges
The Sensory Room helps children with Autism, stroke victims, and people with many other types of disabilities

Bricks & Sticks gallery
Custom fabrication of wheelchair accessible block table
Bricks & Sticks gallery
Custom fabrication of wheelchair accessible block table
Bricks & Sticks gallery
Custom Fabrication of "Arch Table" and three different types of arch building games
Bricks & Sticks
Custom fabrication of ball table and pyramid games

It's Alive! gallery
Development, design, fabrication, and installation of exhibit components
Detail photo of light-up x-ray panel
Detail photo of removable velcro organ game
Detail photo of digestive tract game
It's Alive! gallery
Development, design, fabrication, and installation of exhibit components
Pattern Studio
Spinning hubcap wall
Pattern Studio
Interactive spoon flowers sculpture

Pattern Studio
Interactive spoon flowers sculpture
Sandy Island
Giant wall of sand created from different types of sand collected from around the world
Sandy Island
Boulder drop-interactive component illustrates how sand is formed
Sandy Island
Detail of a lighthouse I carved for the giant wave tank
Sandy Island
Slim wave tank-shows the cross-section of a wave. The motor can be manually adjusted by the visitor to form different wave heights, lengths, and speeds.
Toolbox gallery
Development of interactive components demonstrating different types of tools
Bubbles exhibit
Graphic design for bubbles exhibit
Long Island Children's Museum Exhibits
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Long Island Children's Museum Exhibits

Development, design, fabrication, and installation of various exhibit components and galleries for the Long Island Children's Museum

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