STEM Students Supply Electric Cars To Children With Disabilities
New Britain High School and Central Connecticut State University students are sourcing their knowledge, inventiveness, compassion, and creativity to change lives. The talented students are creating electric cars for kids with disabilities. For families who can’t afford the staggering cost of adaptive wheelchairs, the free modes of transportation the Connecticut STEM students are engineering are an exciting alternative to help their loved ones gain new ground.
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The student automotive engineers are serving their local chapter of the Go Baby Go! organization. The organization, which was founded at the University of Delaware in 2000, is dedicated to providing independent mobility solutions for everyone. Participants receive instructions on how to create these cool cars, and volunteer effort and donations make the builds possible.
“What this is designed to do is maybe for an hour every day let the kid take control of their own mobility,” Connor Boman, a Central Connecticut State University student who volunteered during the build, told CBS News.
The Connecticut STEM students built cars for Kelicia who is 7 years old and Mosiah who is 8 years old.
“The Go Baby Go program in New Britain ensures the STEM students aren’t just learning how to build robots, but robots with a purpose,” reports CBS News writer Caitlin O’Kane.
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Three local families benefitted from the ingenuity of students at West Virginia University at Parkersburg and Wood County Tech this month as well. The students created four electric cars — the West Virginia students have supported the national Go, Baby, Go! Program for three years.
News Source: CBS News, Go Baby Go!, WTAP
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