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High school students build wheelchair stroller to help father walk his newborn

July 20, 2021
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High school students build wheelchair stroller to help father walk his newborn
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A Maryland father whose mobility was impaired after having brain surgery was given the chance to walk his newborn son. 

It was all thanks to a group of students at Bullis School in Potomac that was on a mission to help out a fellow teacher. 

Three years ago Matt Zigler, the school’s BITlab coordinator, created a class that utilized the school’s maker space – a collaborative workspace filled with tools and advanced technology like 3D printers – to focus on “empathy-driven” projects. 

It’s called “making for social good.” 

Students at Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland, working on the wheelchair stroller. 

Students at Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland, working on the wheelchair stroller. 
(Matt Zigler )

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“The goal of the class each year is to pick a person or an organization that we can design and build something for, go through a sort of empathy-driven process to understand what it is that they…

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