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 David Brake - worked at local energy company DEL - KIJAICO

Information Access provides students with disabilities "real world" summer work experiences in the Delaware community. By participating in an internship, students gain knowledge and experience first hand. Positions offer a variety of interesting projects which allow students to become more familiar with careers in the science, engineering, and math disciplines. They also receive a stipend for their work.

Information Access sponsors a number of student positions to eligible candidates; students with a disability in high school living in the Delaware Valley region. Applications may be submitted via email (ia-info@ee.udel.edu), fax (302-831-4316), or snail mail (Information Access Lab, Univ. of Delaware / Department of EE and CIS, 208 Evans Hall, Newark DE 19716). For more information call 302-831-2485 or email ia-info@ee.udel.edu. There are two deadlines for which we will accept applications and base our decisions. We reserve the right to grant positions any time after the first cutoff deadline so we urge you to apply early. Applications must be received by APRIL 9, 2001 or April 30, 2001

APPLICATION (.pdf) - copy of the application which you can download, print and complete.

If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader you will need to install it to view and print the application because it is in a pdf format. Acrobat Reader is FREE and available on line, just follow the instructions listed below.

Instructions for obtaining and installing Adobe Acrobat Reader:

* Go to Adobe's site http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/download.html

* Choose the appropriate platform for which you wish to install Acrobat Reader (Macintosh, Windows, DOS, UNIX, or OS/2). Most of you will probably choose Windows, and then click on the "download" image for "Acrobat Readers for Windows" (the first option).

* Once you have downloaded the file you will want to install it. The only thing you will need to do is locate the file, now on your machine, through your file manager of choice. Click on the file and it will automatically install itself. It may prompt you for a few things just click next.

* Once you have installed the program you can use it. Just do what you normally do to open a program; click on the file, or select it from the "Start Menu" (Windows 95/98/NT) etc. (Or you can go back and click on the application in Netscape, and it should now automatically open the pdf format within your browser).

* If you have any problems please don't hesitate to contact Anna Phalangas by phone or email (above).

Information Access sponsored David Brake (featured above) in a summer work experience. David had the opportunity to learn more about energy having interned with the local company DEL-KIJAICO. We hosted two students Erin Cramer and Jeremy Good . These students learned about Assistive Technologies, computers, engineering principles, programming and the Internet. Links to their work are listed below.

Assistive Technologies: Comparison of Speech Recognition Software, Erin Cramer.
Erin learned a great deal about computers and Assistive Technologies. In her time with us she worked on a variety of things. She learned how to use a windows and unix operating system. She learned how to use the Internet and do some basic html programming. Erin contributed to our discussions on our science place online, Scientopia. She also got to work with a few students with disabilities in evaluating speech recognition software.

Internet Site Development: Engineering Curriculum, Jeremy Good.
Jeremy learned how to use a unix operating system and learned how to program in html. He was exposed to an electrical engineering curriculum and created the web pages for an undergraduate electrical engineering course.

At the end of the 8 week internship period all students participating in the program have the opportunity to share their work with peers and the community. In the form of a poster session students display and talk about their work.

All 1998 student SEEDelaware participants at Poster Session

Guest Speaker, Lieutenant Governor Ruth Ann Minner

Posters of Students Hosted by Information Access, Erin Cramer and Jeremy Good

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