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Student Engineering Project Helps Girl Feed Herself

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Engineering students help student feed herself-JSvideo snapshotFor their their senior project, six Marquette University engineering students chose to design and manufacture a device that would help a physically-challenged 11-year-old girl to feed herself.

Without the device, Kailyn Pieper has to bring her mouth right down to the table when eating in the school cafeteria with her friends. Without the device, she was dipping her face into the plate.

(WATCH the inspiring video or READ the story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Thanks to Nancy Peske for sending the link!

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