Quorum Day: Help blind and visually impaired students participate in robotics.

Quorum Today seeks to expand the use of the QUORUM programming language to allow blind and visually impaired students to participate in competitive robotics by encouraging manufacturers to allow QUORUM to be used as an accessible coding language.

Send Us Your Thoughts

We want to hear your thoughts on Quorum. 

After you've tried Quorum and completed some of the exercises please email your thoughts and any photos or screen captures you created.

Send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and include the following information.

  • Your Name
  • Your organization or club (optional)
  • Contact email
  • Short description of what you did with quorum.
  • Tell us what was most interesting about your experience.
  • Any additional inquiry you'd like to do having tried accessible solutions.
  • Any photos or screen captures of your work.

Your responses will be anonymized and posted on this website.

Thank you!
// Marco

Marco Ciavolino

Marco is the creator of https://RobotMats.com and https://EmpowerMats.com. He has worked closely with Gina Fugate over the past few years. to create more awareness of the need to consider accessibility in the design of curriculum and equipment. You can learn more about Marco's daily work here:  https://enktesis.com 

Project Lead:
XCORP2014 / Enktesis LLC
http://enktesis.com
410-838-8264
*enktesis, LLC assists clients in a range of web technology solutions, marketing communications, business development, and communications research efforts

In cooperation with:
Robot Mats
https://robotmats.com
Build the skills of your current team with our universal training mats. They provide every scenario required to teach all the fundamentals programming and similar robotics systems.
Empower Mats
https://empowermats.com 
Tools to empower visually impaired students to participate in competitive robotics programs.

In cooperation with:
Geyer Instructional
https://www.geyerinstructional.com
Geyer is the exclusive marketer, manufacturers, and distribution partner for Robot Mats and Empower Mats. Build the skills of your current team with the universal training mats. They provide every scenario required to teach all the fundamentals programming and similar robotics systems.

In cooperation with:
Quorum
https://quorumlanguage.com
Quorum is a full-featured, robost programning environment that enables blind and visuall impaired students to program robots and other technologies.

In cooperation with:
Maryland School for the Blind
https://www.marylandschoolfortheblind.org
The Maryland School for the Blind provides outreach, educational, and residential programs to children from birth to 21 years old who are blind or low vision including those with multiple disabilities.

This project is being funded through a generous grant from the Vision Advancement Foundation (VAF) of Oklahoma. The VAF exists to provide excellence in eyecare, especially among those with distinctive needs.

This website is developed and maintained by Enktesis at https://enktesis.com

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