FIRST member creates low-cost prosthetic leg
From: Electronic Products - 08/13/2013
By: Jim Harrison

Invention wins Future Innovator Award

Last fall, Parker Owen was a senior at the Alabama School of Math and Science
in Mobile, AL, and a member of FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) and FIRST
Tech Challenge (FTC). Parker invented a low-cost prosthetic leg (Cycle-Leg)
that he sees being able to help perhaps thousands of people who can't afford
the professional device.

Parker Owen won this year's Future Innovator Award.

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Links:
FIRST
http://www.electronicproducts.com/News/You_need_to_know_about_FIRST.aspx

Alabama student makes prosthetic leg from bicycle; will make more in Honduras
  (video 4:07) 
http://blog.al.com/live/2013/02/alabama_student_makes_prosthet.html