Students with Blindness

[JaneYoung]

Hi Lanse,

Thank you for creating this thread.

I spent some time this past fall helping to mentor an FLL team at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired here in Austin, Texas. It is their rookie year and they have worked very hard - as have all of the FLL teams.

If you would like, I would be more than happy to talk with the teacher/concerned parent who spoke with you. I will send you a private message with my phone number and e-mail and please feel free to forward it to the teacher.

I have always been a believer that anything is possible. Students in these FIRST programs continue to prove me right.

Thank you again,
Jane

[Seth Mallory]

Thank You for this topic. We have had disabled students before but this would be different. We are a machine shop intensive program so it would be difficult. All of our disabled students have worked on the robot and not felt they had make work jobs. While I had thought about the awards submissions the use of a screen reader is a new one for me and would allow the student to work on the robot if interested in programing. I believe that using our Sherline mill and lathe we could give enough training so that the student would have a feel for what the team is doing on the larger machines. I think it would be easer and more beneficial for the student we started a Vex team but I will give this subject a lot more thought. Thanks again for this new project.