They don’t have their driver’s licenses yet, but John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science seniors Thano Karkaetedes, Ophilia Anis and Calvin Kwan know that cars and cellphones don’t mix.
“Having an older sister that drives, she’s on her phone A LOT,” Karkaetedes said, laughing. “But if we take phones out of the picture, then most distracted driving will be gone.”
So, on Wednesday, the trio walked from their school in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood to Northeastern University’s EXP Makerspace to refine their box, which locks a phone away when a car is in motion.
“We don’t have a lot of this stuff — or this stuff in quantities that we can access as students — that they have here,” Karkaetedes said, surveying the makerspace equipment. “They definitely have a lot of materials you wouldn’t find in a typical high…
