Help your visually impaired and blind students excel in this year's FLL challenge: Cargo Connect
Our accessible version of the 2021 FLL Competition mat allows visually impaired and blind students to successfully complete their missions. Empower Mats works with The Maryland School of the Blind through a grant from the Vision Advancement Foundation of Oklahoma to develop solutions to enable visually impaired and blind children to excel in student robotics programs. Our expertise and unique processes have enabled the teams in Maryland and other schools to excel in these events. How? Let’s learn more. The official FIRST LEGO League mat provides an engaging visual environment for sighted students. For visually impaired and color-blind students it presents a confusing image, and it does not provide any tactile guidance for low vision and blind students. Empower Mats Accessible Symbolics process reduces the colors to large, clear areas and makes all robot guidance lines black. The base accessible mat’s colors can be easily viewed with any of the major categories of color-blindness make it accessible to wide range visual abilities. An optional tactile overlay can be added to surface, giving students the ability to touch the mat to understand missions and relationships allowing them to use their existing tools to measure actual distances and relationships.
An overview of the FLL 2021-22 Cargo Connection Accessible Mat