GLEN MILLS, Pa. (WPVI) -- A company based in Glen Mills, Pa. made headlines last month after creating foam-like inserts to protect kids from sports injuries that can be fatal.
Now, Unequal Technology has unveiled its newest, and perhaps most sobering, products.
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Founder Robert Vito handed out bulletproof backpack panels to 8th graders at the Saint Cornelius School in Chadds Ford Monday morning.
The company was asked to design a ballistic shield that would protect against rounds from a 357 and a 44 caliber hand gun.
And this week they unveiled them in the real world.
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Not only were students given donated shields, Saint Cornelius is now one of the first schools in the country to have its entire faculty armored with bulletproof protection.
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