Fox News,
by
Asra Q. Nomani
&
Peter D'Abrosca
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In 2017, at an "Aging into the Future" conference in Los Angeles, ABC7 LA interviewed Cole Allen, then a mechanical engineering student at the California Institute of Technology, about a new safety feature he developed for wheelchairs. (KABC))snip)That year, Allen earned a mechanical engineering degree. While in college, he completed a competitive summer research fellowship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, contributing to astrophysics work, according to his LInkedIn profileHe also developed technical projects, including a physics-based role-playing shooter game called "First Law," as well as robotic systems and later another game, "Bohrdom," released on the Steam platform.