The Ladies’ Kayak Project

Donations to TLKP are now tax deductible! If you donate to the project you will receive a note from the Paddlesports Industry Foundation indicating your $ is tax deductible. The Shimoda Group gathered $500 from you all, and donated $2250 of its own toward this effort: the remaining $750 is due in September, 2012. At this point, the most important thing is to make use of the concept with discussion, experimentation in your own boat and suggestions to your paddling instructor, retailer, outfitter, or manufacturer's rep to suggest to kayak designers that the concepts might be worth pursuing. We have asked manufacturers and individuals to support an evolution of design suited to women by developing and selling product that suit women specifically, and to donate a portion of their profit to PIF to further this movement.

Donations to the Paddlesports Industry Foundation are 100% tax deductible. Thanks for your consideration.

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The Ladies Kayak Project Rolls on with Paddlesports Industry Support

The Product Design engineering students at Carnegie Mellon have been busy working on a couple of very, very neat concepts for this project and … you are welcome to hear all about them at their presentation this coming Tuesday! Seriously, if you are near Pittsburgh and can make it to Shaip Hall on the Carnegie Mellon University campus, let me know! Their work discussions need to remain in the classroom for now, but suffice it to say that i am very psyched and proud of their thoughtful problem solving thus far.

The Paddlesports Industry Foundation, a non-profit organization, has adopted TLKP. What does this mean? Well, for one, your ‘gift’ to the project is now tax deductible and if you have sent $ via PayPal or a check, you’ll receive a thank you and confirmation by the end of the year from PIF.

This week’s presentation will show us their prototyping plans and models developed thus far, with initial conclusions and reactions from their team about the efficacy of the design and some reaction from industry members they have interviewed. Wish I could show you what they are planning, but they’d have to kill me.  :)

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