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Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Open House
Kathy Cahill, Associate Dean, Accessibility and Usability
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Jan/31 | Wed | 12:00PM-02:00PM | 7-143 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None
The Assistive Technology Information Center, which serves the MIT community, opens its doors to show commercially available assistive technology available to MIT students and staff with disabilities, and other interested people. We will demonstrate
Learn about ways to make your website and documents more accessible to people with disabilities. See examples of tactile diagrams and other ways to make information accessible.
Sponsor(s): ATIC Lab
Contact: Kathleen Cahill, 7-143, 617 253-5111, KCAHILL@MIT.EDU
Django Unchained
Chen Xie
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 50 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Experience using Python, ability to install Python packages
"Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design." - https://www.djangoproject.com/
This series will introduce core concepts and workings of the Django framework. and demonstrate how it can be used to create websites in an orderly Pythonic manner with good programming principles. Throughout the hands-on sessions, we will build a Django site to apply the concepts taught. The final lesson ends with a functional site deployed on a remote server.
This series will be of particular use for scientific Python programmers who have been frustrated by the unintuitive style of web development taught by common online tutorials. We will attempt to avoid issues such as scattered css files, duplicate html boiler code, confusion between integrating front and back end components, and more.
Lesson Plan
Session 1
- Introduction to Django
- Web frameworks vs content management systems
- What django does and does not do
- Other web frameworks and similar technologies
- Why Django?
- Project and apps layout
- Django components overview
- Urls and views with basic html
- Django templates
- Static content: css, js, images
Session 2
- Models
- Forms
- Modelforms
- Formsets/ModelFormsets (optional)
Session 3
- Full deployment on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform
- Obtain domain
- Obtain virtual machine (VM)
- Direct domain to VM IP
- Configure web server
- Configure Django for deployment
Sponsor(s): Health Sciences
Contact: Chen Xie, cx1111@mit.edu
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Jan/29 | Mon | 06:00PM-08:00PM | 32-144 |
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Jan/31 | Wed | 06:00PM-08:00PM | 32-144 |
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Feb/02 | Fri | 06:00PM-08:00PM | 32-144 |
Hardware Hacking and Rapid Prototyping
Kurt Keville
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Jan/16 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | NE47-189 |
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Jan/18 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:00PM | NE47-189 |
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Jan/23 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | NE47-189 |
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Jan/25 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:00PM | NE47-189 |
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Jan/30 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | NE47-189 |
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Feb/01 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:00PM | NE47-189 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Compete in this year's Soldier Design Contest. Attend sessions for a foundation in the fundamental processes of Rapid Prototyping and build a winning design for prizes. Prototype development will be funded through lab resources and teams will compete to win a portion of $15K.
Jan 16: SDC Contest Overview, project descriptions, interest statements and scheduling.
Jan 18: Lab equipment introduction. Partial equipment list; Various Microscopy (AFM, SEM, TEM), assorted chromatography, basic metal and wood shop, 3-D printing, etc.
Jan 23: Build your own LoRaWAN router (MOVED to NEXT WEEK)
Jan 25: NVidia Jetson hackathon
Jan 30: Build your own LoRaWAN router
Feb 1: Final Project (Powerpoint) Presentations
Sponsor(s): Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Contact: Kurt Keville, 4-6424, kkeville@mit.edu
Web Accessibility: Encouraging Digital Diversity
Katherine Wahl, Accessibility and Usability Consultant, Kathleen Cahill, Associate Dean, Accessibility and Usability, Chris LaRoche, User Experience Consultant, Rich Caloggero, Accessibility Consultant
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Jan/24 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-153 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Join MIT’s accessibility consultants to learn how you can make your web sites and applications more accessible. Learn from the experts about accessibility, how and where to get started with assessment, what questions to ask vendors, and when to call us. We will present a brief overview of accessibility, describe the most common issues we encounter, and discuss how address them.
Contact: Katherine Wahl, 7-143, 617 324-4647, KWAHL@MIT.EDU
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