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Lafayette Parish high school students built a modified bike pedal, made sensors and programmed a microprocessor to help a little boy with a prosthetic leg ride a bike like his peers, and now their idea has garnered global recognition.
Team 3616 Phenomena ranked as one of 20 robotics teams out of 870 worldwide with its Innovation Project, placing them in the top 2% in the world in the 2021 FIRST Innovation Challenge. It s a bicycle add-on kit that allows children with an impaired leg or compromised leg to bike-ride like other kids, said Hailey Menard, recent graduate of Ovey Comeaux High School on the team.