NYC VIDEOGRAPHY, FAMILY INTERVIEWS & PHOTOGRAPHY: AMANDA VOISARD | PUBLICATION: THE WASHINGTON POST
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The robot has a little girl's face, her soft voice. It comes to life on weekday mornings at Peyton Walton's elementary school in Maryland, attending her classes as she works the controls from her room near a hospital here. Peyton is 10, thin and blue-eyed, a girl who loves penguins and the color green and clothes that sparkle. -read the article on washingtonpost.com
Peyton Walton, 10, attends her Poolesville Elementary School class in Maryland remotely via a double robot so that she may continue school while undergoing radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Peyton sits at a small desk near the window overlooking New York, where she has propped her iPad to connect to her class.
Peyton interacts with her teacher at Poolesville Elementary while attending class remotely from New York.
Peyton and her mother, Lynn Schaeber, try to re-establish a lost connection while Peyton attends class at Poolesville Elementary School remotely from her room in the Ronald McDonald House in New York.
Peyton and her mother share a room at the Ronald McDonald House on the Upper East Side.
Peyton shows her teacher her laptop screen. She uses the iPad to control the robot and see into the Poolesville classroom.
Peyton wheels herself out to lunch during a break between classes.
Peyton, right, and Myrrah Shapoo, 10, dance while playing video games in the playroom of the Ronald McDonald House.
Peyton waits for dinner in the kitchen and dining area of the Ronald McDonald House.
Peyton eats dinner with her mother. Peyton has lost most of her blond hair to chemotherapy and wears one of her many knit hats when she appears on the robot’s screen for class.
Peyton and her mother cross the street in New York.
Peyton Walton, 10, heads back to class following lunch with her mother, Lynn Schaeber.
Peyton Walton, 10, has her position aligned in preparation for radiation treatment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Monday, November 16, 2015 in New York City, NY.
Techs monitor Peyton as she receives radiation treatment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Monday, November 16, 2015 in New York City, NY.
Peyton Walton, 10, rides the elevator at the Ronald McDonald House New York on her way to begin class remotely in the room she shares with her mother on Monday, November 16, 2015 in New York City, NY.
Peyton starts a new day of school while undergoing treatments.
Peyton Walton, 10, and her classmates work on their studies.
Peyton Walton, 10, pauses at a cross walk in between running down the street following her radiation treatment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Monday, November 16, 2015 in New York City, NY. Peyton's mother Lynn Schaeber said Peyton has fared the effects of the radiation better than that of the chemotherapy treatment.
