{"id":29278,"date":"2016-10-19T14:39:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T14:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/2016\/10\/19\/students-3d-print-and-assemble-prosthetic-hands-for-school-project\/"},"modified":"2022-03-29T18:53:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:53:44","slug":"students-3d-print-and-assemble-prosthetic-hands-for-school-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/2016\/10\/19\/students-3d-print-and-assemble-prosthetic-hands-for-school-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Students 3D Print and Assemble Prosthetic Hands for School Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hand1\" <\/picture><\/a>What do you get when you combine a motivated student leader, enthusiastic classmates, a worldwide online community, and the latest 3D Printing technology from Stratasys? You give children around the world a cool way to hold things again. \u00a0That is what happened when high school student Rahul Jayaraman\u00a0of Basis Chandler<\/a>\u00a0decided to take part in a project called Enabling The Future<\/a>. They describe themselves as “A global network of passionate volunteers using 3D Printing to give the world a\u00a0‘helping hand'” by designing a wide variety of prosthetic hands for kids that can be printed and assembled by volunteers.<\/p>\n

Local news station,\u00a0KSAZ FOX 10 Phoenix<\/a> stopped by PADT while we were printing three hands in our Stratasys FORTUS 450 to interview Rahul and talk to us about the project. \u00a0It gives a great summary:<\/p>\n