ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Working as a bomb squad technician demands calm under pressure, steady hands and a knack for electronics. Well, turns out those traits are also good for another line of work - Easter egg construction.</s>STEVE CASE: (Laughter) I'm not sure it's natural work for a bomb squad.</s>AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: That's Cpl. Steve Case. He commands the police bomb squad in St. Charles County, Mo. His team recently spent a couple of days wiring up special Easter eggs for children who are visually impaired - plastic eggs that chirp.</s>STEVE CASE: If they can't see the eggs, they can't find them, so we make them beep. And when they find the eggs - there's a switch on the outside. They turn it off, it stops beeping, and then we give them another egg with toys or some candy inside of it.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The bomb squad has been making eggs chirp since 2010. They picked up the idea at a national bomb technician conference. Lots of bomb squads around the country run similar projects, and Steve Case says that their professional expertise does help.</s>STEVE CASE: You can actually wire these things up wrong and they won't work. So through trial and error and a few soldering iron burns, we got it all done. And we're actually pretty good at it now.</s>AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: This past weekend, the police and the county held Easter egg hunts for kids with special needs. Besides the beeping eggs for visually impaired kids, they held a special hunt for kids with mobility challenges and another for children with sensory issues or autism. Steve Case has an 18-year-old son with autism.</s>STEVE CASE: I know what it means when a family has to not do things because their kids are just a little bit different. So yeah, it's been kind of the driving force on my end, too, working with these special needs families.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: He said watching the hunts was one of the best days he'd had, and he wants to make them an annual event.
The bomb squad at the St. Charles County, Mo., police department recently tackled a different sort of electronics challenge. They built chirping eggs for an Easter egg hunt for children with special needs on Saturday.