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Students Create Robotic Locker Opener for Disabled Classmate

Students Create Robotic Locker Opener for Disabled Classmate
Muscular dystrophy robbed Nick Torrance of his ability to walk and open his locker at school. Fortunately, Nick's high school classmates cared enough to used their robotics ingenuity to create an automatic locker opener.

Muscular dystrophy robbed Nick Torrance of his ability to walk, which would be hard enough for a teenager to handle. But it also hindered his everyday capabilities such as opening his locker at school.

Fortunately, Nick's high school classmates were clever enough to create a solution as a homework assignment.

Two Pinckney Community High School seniors used their robotics ingenuity and created an electronic automatic locker opener.

The amazing device operates with a remote control on Torrance's wheelchair.

(WATCH the video below, or READ the story from the Livingston Daily)

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