Toy Adaptation Program - TAP

We hope that everyone is staying safe during these difficult times of COVID-19. While our spring TAP events have been postponed, we have created a page on our website dedicated to adapting toys at home! The “At-Home Adapting” page provides information about adaptable toys, necessary materials, and step-by-step adapting instructions. Check out the page here and share it with anyone else who may be interested:

At-Home Adapting ___________________________________________________________________ For those seeking guidance on how to adapt a toy themselves, this page has a collection of instruction sheets, videos, and adapta…

Our annual Toys For All Tots event at Nationwide Children's Hospital was a great success! Thank you to everyone who was involved with the event yesterday!

Ohio State engineering students adapt toys for kids with challenges A collaboration between Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Ohio State University engineering students aims to adapt holiday toys for children with

All packed up for our annual Toys For All Tots event tomorrow! We are very excited to teach families how to adapt toys for their own children, and we will also be donating adapted toys to the families. Looking forward to a great event!

Today, TAP held a workshop where AEP employees teamed up with OSU engineering students. We adapted many toys and had a lot of fun! Thank you to AEP for being a long-time partner, and thank you to everyone who attended the event!

TAP had many amazing events last week! On Thursday, AEP employees adapted toys at the OSU airport. The Diversity, Outreach, and Inclusion Office partnered with TAP to host a workshop for rising junior and senior high school students on Friday. And the TAP interns attended The Science Accessibility Conference this past Saturday to learn about how STEM can be made more inclusive.

To learn more about the DOI summer program, visit https://engineering.osu.edu/diversity/engineer-day

To learn more about The SciAccess Conference, visit https://www.sciaccess.org/about/

Come visit us at the College of Engineering Alumni Lunch at Ohio State Day at Cedar Point!

It's the end of the week, but not the end of the Day of Giving. Yep, the Happy Hour Challenge is in full swing! If TAP receives the most gifts of any Day of Giving cause between now and 7pm, we'll receive an additional $1,000!

Thank you to our wonderful supporters who have already donated!

Ohio State Day of Giving Make a difference during our annual Day of Giving.

The Lunchtime Challenge starts in 10 minutes! All gifts made between 12pm and 1pm today will be doubled up to a total of $2,000! https://dayofgiving.osu.edu/giving-day/9996/department/12564

Ohio State Day of Giving Make a difference during our annual Day of Giving.

Happy Friday everyone! Today, March 22nd is The Ohio State University's Day of Giving! This is a day to celebrate coming together and giving to programs that we're passionate about. The link to TAP's donation page is
https://dayofgiving.osu.edu/giving-day/9996/department/12564

This link will be open all day, but there are some exciting challenges and gift-matching opportunities throughout the day to keep an eye out for:
Lunchtime Challenge (12pm – 1pm)
All gifts made between 12pm and 1pm today will be doubled up to a total of $2,000!
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Happy Hour Challenge (5pm-7pm)
The work day is over, let's have some fun! If TAP receives the most gifts today between 5pm and 7pm, we'll receive an additional $1,000!

Thank you in advance for your support!

Ohio State Day of Giving Make a difference during our annual Day of Giving.

TAP had some great K-12 outreach last week! Thank you so much to the students from the Columbus Metropolitan Library - Hilliard Branch and Tri-Valley FCS & FCCLA for learning about our program and helping us adapt toys!