A junior at Beaverton’s Westview High School is turning heads and winning awards for an app she developed while interning at Portland State University.
Divya Amirtharaj originally started out to develop an app to help parents of visually impaired children read Braille. Instead, she came up with the myVision app that can read text aloud — in seven languages.
“There’s the market for Braille that’s for people who have lived with a visual impairment for their entire life,” Amirtharaj said. “But if you’ve developed it over time, there’s just not that many resources available.”