Featured Program: Sycamore MS 3-D Printing
A team of three students at Sycamore Middle School hardly knew each other, and knew little about 3-D printing, when they were given the task of creating a prosthetic hand using the school's high-tech printer. But in the process, they not only managed to create a usable model...they also learned about teamwork, and the patience required to build a prototype.
Matthew Slider, Lauren Harris and Ethan Brannon appeared at the May 4th Rotary Club meeting to show the members what they have achieved with their printer. After months of design, trial and error and revisions to their concept, they created an artificial hand with a degree of movement closer to what a real human hand can achieve than what most prosthetic limbs are capable of.
They demonstrated their prototype hand, and also showed off some of the other more common items they've created using the 3-D printer -- such as a cell phone case, and a bottle holder for bicycles.