Another event I got involve in this year was the ISCC hackathon event where I worked with a team of creative and technical people in an effort to solve problems that people with IBD face. There was five teams and each team got a subject matter, we got "Career". I had the idea of taking the : symbol and making it the standard icon for IBD to help build awareness and from there we built on the idea. We decided to pitch an idea where the : icon would be made into a pin that had NFC and would be loaded with a link to short, easy to understand, animated video's that...
1. Told a person with IBD how to quickly and easily describe the illness to an employer.
2.Told the employer what to expect from an employee with IBD.
3. Informed H.R of the requirements needed.
The video's would be of little talking poo's to take away the edge of the matter and to try make the content more approachable and shareable with the end goal to be that there is so much awareness that a person with IBD can walk into an interview and be confident the the person sitting across from them would be fully informed just by seeing the pin and no awkward conversations would ensue.
(Photos of event from the ISCC Facebook page)
Another good thing about the event was getting to collaborate and network with people from different creative and technical backgrounds which afforded me the opportunity of a job working with Brian Wilson, co-founder of Wilson creative.
