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Enable Community Conference (EnableCon2015) will accelerate collaboration between recipients, families and the e-NABLE Community’s medical, educational, and engineering design leaders, by combining talks by thought leaders in medicine, industry and public policy with hands-on device-assembly workshops for medical practitioners, families, and volunteers, and innovative service-based learning curricula for educators. It will include e-NABLE’s gifting of hands and arms to over a dozen recipients and veterans. Working lunches and an Unconference will review and advance the community’s research projects and activities over the past year, and donors will underwrite a Benefit Dinner to fuel organizational support provided by the newly-formed Enable Community Foundation. e-NABLE’s first retreat for young recipients’ offers games, innovation collaboration and contests, and guided discussions addressing life in and out of school, and other topics raised by youth leaders. Conference Coordinator Maria Esquela says, “this conference will show the world why, and how, e-NABLE has been able to do so much so quickly.”