Education
‘I call it Bob’: Robot helps girl fighting cancer stay in school
By Christopher Cousins, Bangor Daily News
Last Thursday, Katherine’s Bowen’s eighth-grade honors algebra class at Camden-Rockport Middle School went on as usual.
Robot allows boy to ‘attend’ school during chemo
By Judi Currie, fosters.com
ROLLINSFORD — Fifth-grader Levi Whitcomb has missed all but a few school days since being diagnosed with brain cancer this spring. The Rollinsford 10-year-old underwent surgery in April to remove a brain tumor and in now on his fourth round of chemotherapy.
Robot allows Saco student to go to school
By Liz Gotthelf, Journal Tribune
Cris Colaluca's Make-A-Wish is to pass on the same kind of benefits he got
Meeting a celebrity. Attending a sporting event. Disney World.
These wishes have been filled many times through Make-A-Wish. But one high school junior from New Castle wanted his wish to extend beyond a one-time experience. Cris Colaluca, who lives with spina bifida and other related health complications, is using his Make-A-Wish to give others the same gift a 4-foot-tall, 20-pound robot has given him: a sense of normalcy.