Young Engineers Make Life Easier for Brightview Residents
After learning that some senior citizens had trouble getting on the bus for trips, 16 local students used their engineering education to help.
Over the past few months, local students from the FIRST Lego League “Brick Hawks” engineering team “adopted” senior citizens living at Brightview Senior Living Center as they sought to resolve problems facing the elderly throughout the region. The teams—comprised of young engineers competing in robotics competitions—are working on projects focused on FIRST's 2012 “Senior Solutions" theme. Focusing on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)-centered projects, designing innovative solutions to problems faced by many senior citizens. In an effort to perform some community service and learn what challenges they should address, the Brick Hawks spent weeks working with local residents at Brightview teaching and learning with them …
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