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Local students 3D-printing face shields for medical workers during COVID-19 pandemic

Local students 3D-printing face shields for medical workers during COVID-19 pandemic

Written by David

April 1, 2020

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A local high school is helping mass-produce face shields to help local medical teams during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Even though students are working from home, they developed a prototype to cut down on the processing time. The hum of the 3D printers is constant at Career Technical Education Charter in Fresno.

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“Usually, at school, you are giving kids the opportunity to be, but for them, they’ve been the designers; they’ve been the engineers, and now we’re working the lines,” said Jonathan Delano, director at CTEC.

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When the project first started, it was taking advanced manufacturing teacher Brian Emerson two hours and twenty minutes to produce a shield. But his students came up with a way to shorten the process, using software programs they learned in school. “So that allows them to create and generate files and build a design, and then we use MakerBot 3D […]

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