John and Paul in 1993 | |
| |  | | Step 1: Think about how you could solve the problem. Sketch your ideas, and remember to be imaginative! |
| |  | | Step 2: Develop your chosen
idea |
| |  | | Step 3: Purchase the components for your alarm |
| |  | | Step 4: Assemble components |
| |  | | Step 5: Test and evaluate your alarm |
| |  | | Step 6: Submit your project to Professor Smith |
| |  | | Step 7: Chuckle at Professor Smith's comments |
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Waking the deaf
In 1995 Paul Saunders qualified as a French-joiner and cabinet maker. He decided to use his skills wisely and went to Kenya as a VSO volunteer to work at Maseno School for the deaf.
There, he had a deaf assistant John. Early one morning Paul needed to retrieve his rucksack from John's hut. But no amount of banging and shouting could wake him.
The solution to the problem only occurred to Paul a few years later when he began a design technology course as a mature student.
How to make an alarm for a deaf carpenter living in a mud-hut in deepest Africa
illustrations by M Henry Yates
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