PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A 17-year-old is creating affordable prosthetic arms, and with each use of the word "cool", Easton LaChappelle gets giggles and gains respect with the BIF9 attendees at Trinity.
He is one of four to already speak at session one of the 2-day convention. Four hundred people from around the country are here to trade stories, exchange ideas.
Whitney Johnson, author and former secretary on Wall Street, dares people to dream. She tells folk to never have regrets.
And the LiveStrong founder Doug Ulman says community helps people get through difficult times.
Airforce photographer and Stacy Pearsall is speaking now to close out session one. Her pictures remind people not to forget United States' veterans. She calls it her purpose.