Engineering Students Design Tech for Blind Teen
Posted on December 17th, 2019 by Mary Lord
India West lost most of her sight to a benign brain tumor when she was about 4 years old. University of Michigan students in David Chesney’s Software Engineering course worked with her to develop technologies that helped her navigate school and home.
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