Students at a Tennessee high school have built a robotic hand for a classmate missing part of his, an act of friendship that he has called life-changi

Tennessee high school students build robotic hand for classmate

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2023-01-27 08:00:10

Students at a Tennessee high school have built a robotic hand for a classmate missing part of his, an act of friendship that he has called life-changing.

At the center of perhaps one of the most heartwarming news stories to come out of the US so far this year is Sergio Peralta, who initially arrived at Henderson high school near Nashville this past fall while trying to cover up that his right hand was not fully formed, CBS News reported Wednesday.

“As I was growing up, like during my first years of school, I had a lot of people asked me what’s wrong with … my hand, lots of people, and I used to just say even in kindergarten, ‘I was born like that,’” the 15-year-old Sergio recalled to the local CBS affiliate WVTF.

Sergio added to CBS: “In the first days of school [at Henderson], I honestly felt like hiding my hand – like nobody would ever find out.”

But an engineering teacher at Sergio’s school, Jeff Wilkins, eventually learned of the boy’s right hand and reportedly promised him that his classmates might be able to do him a favor.

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