For these grade 12 graduates, science class was an easy credit.

Earlier this year, Shaftesbury High School graduate Matthew Hewlett and Linden Christian School graduate Caleb Turon showed off their invention at the Canadian Medical and Biological Enginerring Association's conference.

"[It's] a device that you put over your forehead and it helps blind people navigate," Hewlett said. "It does that by shocking your optic nerve with low amounts of current . . . and you see that as a flash of white light."

Hewlett said the device works for those who have acquired blindness (were born with sight). It currently uses a distance sensor but they hope to soon upgrade it to computer vision.

"We're hoping to get more control with it," Turon said.

Both students had a chance to meet with the Canadian Institute for the Blind to showcase their device as well.

The University of Manitoba, were both students will be attending this year, said the device could be patented. The University also gave them a chance to work on a different project over the summer. Hewlett said the project was something that Dr. Zahra Moussari, the Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program, said no one else had time to work on.

"[The project} is a medical device that you put over your head and it monitor's brain activity," Hewlett said. "They want to use it for Alzheimer's research."

Turon and Hewlett are excited for the school year and for the big things that may lay ahead.