Michel DeGraff was in Haiti the week before last (April 25 — May 1st) with Professors Dale Joachim and Barry Vercoe from the Media Lab and with seven students from the new Media Lab class “New Media Projects For Haiti.” The students had four projects to further develop and test in Haiti:
- “Uplifting expressions”: Theater, music, dance and craft as therapy for children’s post-traumatic stress disorder (Asha Martin and Clinton Scroggins)
- Health education in post-earthquake Haiti (Amritaa Ganguly)
- Low-cost water testing (Anila Sinha, Jess Kim and Kathy Li)
- “Pedal Power”: Lost-cost system to produce electricity by pedaling (Marvin Arnold and Daryl Fairweather)
Two of the students (Jess Kim and Amritaa Ganguly) have blogged about their experiences in Haiti: