Sustainable Employment Skills by Programmable Arts

As part of the Initial phase for settiing up the Drop in Innovation lab for the Disabled ,  Robbinsville Innovation 4-H Club has conducted the following activities in the past several weeks

1) Purchased 3 Cricut Maker Machines that will help in training the team in India to eventually produce creative art work at ease.  2) Purchased few sets of  starter training material  that will be used on the Cricut machines while  practicing various lab experiments.

Total cost for (1) & (2) $1274.42

3) Shipped the Cricut Machines and material from USA to India.

4) Identified few local vendors in India and made some purchases of the lab material (for long term program continuity planning efforts, as we cannot ship the material everytime from USA).

Total Cost $171.59

5) Club President and Vice-President have worked with RDT(Rural Development Trust) team in India and recruited a group of 15 physically challenged staff members (Men and Women) who are willing to get trained in the Programmable arts program. This group will be the pilot team for the "Train the Trianers " program. These trained staff will inturn train the consecutive group of students who want to get trained on this program.

6) Started conducting Zoom training classes with the above group of students beginning January 2nd week,  every Saturday morning  From 6:30a.m to 9:00a.m.(EST).

7) Completed  Design Studio software training to create various graphic art works as well as advanced Cricut Machine operational procedures.

8) Started to work on few hands on lab work using various designing materials duing the training sessions with the group of students and also assignied few after the class lab assignments.

9) Trainees have started to conduct experiments on their using the equipment that was provided and create new designs with the lab material and produced encouraging results.

10) Trainees were able to successfully create some graphics T-Shirts , Masks, Bags, Water bottles, customized Mugs and many more...

Next Steps :

1) Expand the strength of the staff that gets trained in the programmable arts program

2)  Order additional lab equipment & material to expand the capabilities to conduct additional training programs to help with the sustainable employment program

3) As the staff gets trained, identify a potential opportunity to convert one of the learnt skills into a professional product and promote in the market.