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The Tech Club: Tahira Reid

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-829520.mp3

Albany, NY – As a schoolgirl in the Bronx, Tahira Reid dreamed up a machine that would allow her to play double-dutch jump rope all by herself. More than a decade later Reid and her classmates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute made that dream come true. In this story Reid talks about the process of inventing, and how her childhood dream became a reality. http://designscience.umich.edu/tahira.html