Alexandria, VA – It all started with a click.

After noticing his grandparents’ motor impairments left them unable to successfully use their computer, Thomas Jefferson High School junior Dhanvin Ganeshkumar spent the weekend at his computer attempting to concoct a solution.

“It originally started as me coding in my bedroom one weekend after seeing a problem I faced and could make a solution to,” Ganeshkumar said. “I then found a co-founder who was also my friend at my school, and also he himself had family who had suffered motor disabilities.”

This joint effort between him and classmate Zoeb Izzi led to the founding of Swype AI, an accessibility software which recently took home $2,500 from this year’s SXSW Student Impact Challenge.

Ganeshkumar said he takes pride in Swype’s straightfor

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