When a 4-year-old girl in Janesville, Wis., was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth last year, her parents didn't know what to do.
They didn't know how to get her out of her car, and they didn't know what to do to make her more comfortable while she was in the car.
So they turned to an unlikely source for help: high school and middle school students.
The Janesville School District partnered with the Illinois Spina Bifida Association to create a customized car for the girl, as part of the "Go Baby Go" program, a national initiative to provide kids with disabilities with an independent way to get around, reports the Chicago Tribune.
The students worked with mentors from Blain Technologies to design and build the cars, which were presented to the girl and her family on March 14.
"It's really cool because she can't sit in the car," one of the students tells the Journal Sentinel.
"She can sit in the back, in the back seat, in the back seat of the car, but she can't sit in the back seat of the car.
She can't sit in the front seat of the car.
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