It’s as easy as pressing a button and listening to the songbook say the letter on each button that matches its corresponding braille symbol.
So simple, you would think it already existed.
Six middle school-aged kids formed a robotics club, and their invention — a device to teach beginning braille to the blind — recently landed them an invitation to the 2015 First Championship in St. Louis next month.
The championship is a culmination of First Lego League teams across the world that complete projects and build robots as a way to engage children ages 9-14 in science and technology.
The Braille Boys and Annie, as they named themselves, will join 19 other teams chosen out of 527 entries from 22 countries. A final three will be selected to attend a special awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. in June.
Plus, every member from the top three teams gets a robot.
“We had to do a project to come up with a solution of how we can improve the way someone learns something,” said Dusty Haney, a seventh-grader on the team. “We decided we wanted to learn about braille.”
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