COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Students enrolled in a course on kinematics and dynamics of machinery at Tennessee Tech University have been working on a piece of adaptive playground equipment meant for students with disabilities.

Those students, working with Professor Stephen Canfield as part of the Tech Engineering for Kids Initiative, have been working on a playground that will land at Findlay Elementary School in Sparta, Tennessee. The effort was inspired by a student with cerebral palsy: Alivia Mosher.

“The most rewarding thing is knowing we’re making a difference in someone else’s life, because that’s what engineering is about – solving problems and helping people,” TTU mechanical engineering major John Craw said.

Students met with Mosher and her family to learn about how she likes to

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