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Developing the Capabilities of Blind and Visually Impaired Youth to Build and Program Robots

In this paper, we discuss the use of accessible technologies for exposing visually impaired students to the science of robotics using real world, hands-on activities. The purpose of the initiative stemmed from the current lack of engineering and robotics related extracurricular programs, activities, and resources offered to blind and visually impaired youth. Discussion of the technologies and our approach is presented in this paper and validated through a national outreach effort with visually impaired student populations.

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