Achieva: Helps people with disabilities from early childhood to senior years. Provides help with a variety of outdoor activities and camps.

Achilles International: Achilles International is for For everybody with disabilities and their goal is to get people to mainstream athletics

Dance for Parkinson's : PBT’s Dance for Parkinson’s instructors receive specialized training in the Dance for PD® methodology. The class is appropriate for anyone with PD, no matter how advanced. No dance experience is required. In chairs, at a barre or standing, participants explore elements of modern dance, ballet, tap, folk and social dancing in a laidback, social environment enriched by live music.

Dynamic Paddlers: We share in the belief that water is the ultimate equalizer and venture to create unique opportunities for youth and adults to develop independence, maintain personal fitness, and gain self-confidence through paddling.

I Can Shine: Each program provides success through experience. Every effort is acknowledged for each unique person’s individual abilities.

Miracle League of South Hills: We are bringing the game of baseball to children who may have never had the opportunity to play on a real field. By building a custom-designed field with a cushioned rubberized surface to help prevent injuries, wheelchair accessible dugouts and a completely flat surface to eliminate any barriers to wheel-chair bound or visually impaired players, the field has eliminated the challenges that prevent many children from playing the game of baseball. Miracle League of Western PA

Miracle League of Western PA: Every Child Deserves a Chance to Play! We will provide the facilities, programs and people needed to let this happen for the special children we serve.

New Horizons: For 25 years, the CLO New Horizons program has been teaching performing arts to people with disabilities. Sing, dance and act in the convenience of your own location, as our new online classes allow us to bring our musical theater classes to you. Meet new friends. Learn from our professional and experienced faculty. Perform and have fun, together.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School: We emphasize creative movement principles and modified ballet technique in a welcoming and structured studio environment.

Pittsburgh Steel wheelers: The Pittsburgh Steel wheelers organization began in the mid 1970's when four men decided to turn a dream into a reality. The interest of forming a wheelchair basketball team in the Pittsburgh area was an idea shared concurrently amongst several individuals.

Special Olympics Allegheny County: Special Olympics is an international organization dedicated to empowering individuals with intellectual disabilities to become physically fit, productive and respected members of society through sports training and competition.

Steel City Icebergs: People across a variety of ages, skill levels and degrees of disability can share the same ice surface in both training and competition.

Strong As Steel Adaptive Sports: Strong as Steel Adaptive Sports is a team in the Western PA area dedicated to providing sport opportunities for athletes with physical disabilities.

The Friendship Circle:The Friendship Circle of Pittsburgh was established in 2006 with the intention of creating a more inclusive community. Our programs engage youth and adults with diverse abilities in a full range of social activities; we aim to enrich the lives of all participants through mutually advantageous interactions, creating lasting friendships that strengthen both the Jewish and greater communities.

The HOPE Network:We are advocates for people who suffer from physical, mental, and social barriers that impact their daily life. With experts across Michigan, we help them overcome, so they can live their best life possible.

The Woodlands:We love what we do, and it shows. Besides our ongoing and comprehensive training, A Small Orange employees are consistently encouraged to explore new projects and find ways to improve the customer experience.

Three Rivers Adaptive Sports:To promote quality of life, education and to provide quality year-round sports and recreation opportunities for people with disabilities, their families and friends.

TOPSoccer:TOPSoccer (The Outreach Program for Soccer) is a community-based training and team plaement program for young athletes with special needs.

Variety the Children's Charity:Variety enables children with disabilities to live life to the fullest!

Western Pennsylvania BOLD:BOLD organizes affordable outdoor and other leisure activities to enrich the lives of our blind, visually impaired and sighted members (18 and over).

Yes, You Can Dance!:Yes, You Can Dance! is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of dance. We partner with community organizations, dance professionals, health professionals and educators to design and provide dance opportunities for individuals with special needs, people with Multiple Sclerosis, and more.

ADAPTIVE SPORTS RESOURCES:

Crossroads Adaptive Crossroads Adaptive Athletic Alliance is an interactive, collaborative, searchable network and community that provides tips and best practices to adaptive athletes and their coaches. Our most enthusiastic desire is to work as an advocate for adaptive athlete inclusion in sports and fitness worldwide.

Athletic Alliance: As a member of the alliance, your gym, nonprofit, or company is recognized as upholding and furthering the mission of Crossroads – working to level the playing field in competition, encouraging supportive and wide-reaching network for adaptive athletes, and educating coaches, athletes, and others about adapting sports.

Disabled Sports USA: Move United’s mission is to provide national leadership and opportunities for individuals with disabilities to develop independence, confidence, and fitness through participation in community sports, competition, recreation, high performance sport and educational programs.

U.S. Paralympics: When the International Olympic Committee was founded in 1894, the two constituent American members, James Edward Sullivan and William Milligan Sloane, formed a committee to organize the participation of U.S. athletes in the inaugural modern Olympic Games to be contested two years later in Athens, Greece. The formal committee, initially named the American Olympic Association, was formed at a meeting in November 1921 at the New York Athletic Club.

World Team Sports: Since World T.E.A.M.‘s first inclusive program in 1987, our non-profit organization has used athletics to challenge adaptive men, women and children to accomplish goals they never thought possible.

Previous Solutions

1. Special exercise equipment

   • Pros: They are very safe & you are almost positive they can help you and they are tested for accidents.

   • Cons: Hard to find (might be expensive) for some people.

2. You could get prosthetics

   • Pros: They work pretty well and can help you do things you can’t usually do.

   • Cons: Not that easy to use and hard to find. An expert or trainer could help you exercise.

     1. Pros: It can be personalized to help you.

     2. Cons: Hard to find expensive.

3. Adaptive Sports training

• Pros: You can play or participate in sports like others that don't need help, and you maybe able to use adaptable sports equipment at home.

• Cons: Not everybody can participate in every sport because of their limitations and may need assistance to participate.

Solution Statement

Making a website/app that tells you where you can find equipment for disabilities through a map-search function.

Solution Explanation

The website will tell you where you can find gyms or exercise equipment. You can find different disabilities gyms through a map-search function. We will be doing a section or county of PA.

Connection to the team

The connection to the team is that some of us know disabled people and want them to exercise more. Also, during Covid-19 it is hard to buy equipment and finding gyms, so we researched gyms for disabled people.

How solution will work

(Everyday Scenario)

You could just have a normal day where you aren't really doing anything, and you decide you want to exercise. But unfortunately, you have limited mobility to your legs, and are in a wheelchair, you can't think of anywhere near you that is easy to exercise in with your condition, and you never had enough money to buy your own special workout supplies. So you use our website to find a good nearby gym by using the search feature to find the ones that have special equipment for your condition, and then you can exercise quickly and easily in a gym meant for you!

Commit to be fit, don't quit!

Some helpful advice from our guest speaker

Our guest speaker, Mr. Bob Gillingham gave us some helpful information on how when you are exercising with disabilities, you should stay motivated and focus on exercising a part of your body that doesn't have limited mobility. If you want to learn more from him, you can watch the video below.