Ashland Middle School Students Create Innovative Approach to Real-World Problem
January 8, 2020
By: Tiffney Lopez
Source: WOWK-TV
ASHLAND, Ky. (WOWK) — A group of eighth graders at Ashland Middle School like to see if they can find problems, and then they fix them. Emily Aliff is talking about their latest invention and how it came about. Aliff says they experienced something some live with every day – a wheelchair. Aliff and her classmates got a front-row seat to being in an emergency while bound to a wheelchair.
“How would you get down? There’s a fire, how would you get down?” Aliff asked. “I’d feel scared because everybody else is evacuating and you’re just sitting there having to wait for somebody to come.”
So the class is creating an app that tracks mobility-impaired students. Along with that, the students are creating a prototype for a mechanism to get those students down the stairs. Those plans have made them the three-time Kentucky state champions in the “Samsung Solve for Tomorrow” competition.