Caroline Karbowski is a senior in high school with a passion for 3D imaging that led her to a 2nd place finish in the Tech Olympics. Her project is called See3D, which creates 3D images for the blind to feel and understand more clearly the shape and construct of something they never could have conceived without the added information the 3D image offered.

Caroline somehow had a passion for Braille and taught herself so she could read in the car without getting dizzy, and later she came up with See3D and although this may seem like a natural progression, Caroline is not Blind, nor visually impaired.

Caroline has pursued her passion and is now taking SEE3D to another level and bringing more opportunities for others to get involved in the See3D project. And you can too! Go to her web site at

www.See3D.org and find out more and how you can request a model or how you can become part of the See3D providers.

I really enjoyed talking to Caroline and hearing her passion for what she is doing so I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did interviewing Caroline.

Be sure to check out her web page and give her some feedback on her See3D project on the web at www.See3D.org

You can find her article on the American foundation for the Blind web site at www.AFB.org

A BIG Thank you to CheeChau for your wonderful music!

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Transcription:

See3D – Understanding Through 3D Imagery: Meet Caroline Karbowski

Caroline Karbowski:

I asked her “What was a castle to you, before you felt the model?” and she said, “castle was just a word.”

Didn’t it mean really much. I decided that I need to do more models, because we need to make things more than just words.

I would really like to increase science education for the blind make it more accessible.

And even DNA that was a highly requested model, so you could feel the structure and also how the DNA can replicate.

How they could feel that.

Jeff Thompson:

Blind Abilities presents Caroline Karbowski.

Caroline Karbowski:

When I was in sixth grade I had an hour of free time, and so I thought I would learn Braille.

Jeff:

Understanding more from 3D models.

On the web at See3D.org

Caroline Karbowski:

When I go to the schools and I give objects to students who are blind, and I see how excited they are to feel what a snowflake is.

And have them understand concepts that they’ve heard about but never been able to understand.

I really want to help more students learn, and give them the models;

and so just seeing the impact that it has encourages me just to keep going.

Jeff:

Welcome to Blind Abilities I’m Jeff Thompson.

Caroline Karbowski is a senior in high school.

In sixth grade she taught herself Braille.

In the 11th grade she entered the Tech Olympics;

with a project that was geared towards providing 3D imagery for the blind.

It’s called See3D.

S-E-E 3-D.

Now Caroline Karbowski he is not blind, nor visually impaired.

She’s fully sighted.

This is an initiative that she took on because she felt there was a need for it something she w...