In 1999 May started a new program, Sendero Group, which combines the skills of high-tech professionals with orientation experts to provide talking digital maps and Global Positional System navigation services for the blind or visually impaired. Sendero Group's headquarters are in Davis, Ca., with five locations spread between Silicon Valley and Vienna, Austria. May's current challenge is to see the dream of a talking GPS navigation and information system for blind people become a reality. To further the efforts of his causes and ventures, he has met with numerous sports figures, entertainment celebrities and politicians, including top U.S. government officials. Success on the slopes May holds the downhill speed skiing record of 65 mph for a totally blind person.
Skiing is a very visual sport and slalom, for example, demands precise visual judgement.
Speed skiing, on the other hand, requires little in terms of visual judgement. Mentor to many Not content with his own successes, May is an active mentor to others as well. He received the prestigious American Foundation for the Blind Kay Gallegher award, recognizing his mentoring roles in various national organizations, including Discovery Blind Sports, United States Association of Blind Athletes, San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind, Peninsula Center for the Blind, Sensory Access Foundation, and Project Hired. May will deliver the commencement address at LPC's graduation ceremony on May 20 at 10 a.m. on the LPC field.