Local grade schooler donates birthday money to sponsor WSU GoBabyGo vehicle for child
with disabilities
April 28, 2022
By WSU Strategic Communications
Contact for News Reporters: Lainie Mazzullo-Hart, director of news and media relations, 316-978-3409 or lainie.mazzullo@wichita.edu.
Media are welcome to attend the following:
What: GoBabyGo Spring Car Delivery Day When: 9 a.m. Saturday, April 30 Where: WSU John Bardo Center lobby
Finn Corcoran grew up around the GoBabyGo program at Wichita State University with
his mother, Samantha Corcoran, an instructor in WSU’s College of Engineering. The
9-year-old watches students as they laser cut or 3D print parts and connects wires
to joysticks on the toy cars.
After years of watching, Finn wanted to do more.
For his 9th birthday, Finn asked family members to donate money for a car he could
help build through GoBabyGo, a WSU program that modifies off-the-shelf ride-on toy
cars for kids with disabilities.
With the $700 he received from family, Finn will see his dream become a reality this
weekend as he helps the team of WSU engineering and physical therapy students he sponsored
through his donation deliver a modified car to Jackson, a 2-year-old with Osteo Imperfecta,
also known as brittle bone disease.
“Finn loves to build with tools and repair broken items, and he’s been wanting to
help build for some time,” said Corcoran, who coordinates GoBabyGo. “He was around
4 years old when we started this program and comes to the lab often with me.”
GoBabyGo has delivered custom-modified ride-on toy cars to over 125 children since
its beginning in spring 2016.
Wichita State University serves as the Kansas urban-based research university, enrolling
more than 16,000 students from every state in the U.S. and more than 100 countries.
Wichita State and WSU Tech are recognized for being student centered and innovation
driven.
Located in the largest city in the state with one of the highest concentrations in
the United States of jobs involving science, technology, engineering and math (STEM),
Wichita State University provides uniquely distinctive and innovative pathways of
applied learning, applied research and career opportunities for all of our students.
The Innovation Campus, which is a physical extension of the Wichita State University main campus, is one
of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing research/innovation parks, encompassing
over 120 acres and is home to a number of global companies and organizations.
