3D Printing Prosthetic Hands
Donation protected
Photo credit - ARYN TOOMBS / CALGARY HERALD
3D printing is changing our world in many ways. Some people make toys and trinkets while others, like us here at Print Your Mind, help solve problems on a global scale. 3D printing prosthetic limbs and donating them to those in need is one such initiative. My name is Colin Pischke and I am the owner of Print Your Mind 3D . I am very excited to announce that we have teamed up with a one-of-a-kind education initiative, correctly termed “INNOVATE” that allows students to create their own self-directed project to work towards solutions to global and local issues while earning high school credits. INNOVATE is coordinated by Alberta Emerald Award winning teacher, Aaron Dublenko, who was recently awarded “Canada’s Greenest School” for supporting student-led environmental initiatives within the program. As part of his program, Aaron finds industry partners to help with his environmental/sustainability and humanitarian projects. That’s why we decided to reach out to Aaron and the Innovate program, to get students involved in the project. “The students can apply their learning in a real world context and touch the lives of others in the process. When we have an authentic experience like this, it doesn’t end with printing the hands and giving it to someone, it only begins there because now we get to start to imagine what is possible and how we can make the world a better place for many. Our actions have a profound impact on someone’s life. We take education for granted because we don’t understand all of the ways it effects us until we help to create the world we want to see around us.” says Aaron.
We jumped at the opportunity to partner on a project to provide a number of prosthetic hands to the e-NABLE foundation. e-NABLE is a global non-profit organization built with the purpose to “enable the future” by providing 3D printed prosthetics to children in developing countries who don’t have access to such luxuries. e-NABLE made the files available online to download for anyone with a 3D printer to create. When you make something as life changing as this, two lives are impacted. The student or person actually making the prosthetic, and the child who receives it. We believe this is something much larger than just a project you put on display on your desk.
We want to put on a live event at City hall to print and assemble 30 e-NABLE hands to be donated to the initiaitve. At this event we would invite students and the general public to learn about the science and engineering behind printing, assembling and then getting the hands to the children who need them.
With each hand costing about $100 each for printing materials, printing time and hardware, the $3500 would help us provide at least 30 prosthetic hands.
We are incredibly grateful for the support of people around Canada, and the world, to help us make this project a sucess!
Calgary Hearld , Edmonton Journal , Global News, Metro News, Huffington Post, Calgary Buzz , 3D Print.com , & 660 News.
3D printing is changing our world in many ways. Some people make toys and trinkets while others, like us here at Print Your Mind, help solve problems on a global scale. 3D printing prosthetic limbs and donating them to those in need is one such initiative. My name is Colin Pischke and I am the owner of Print Your Mind 3D . I am very excited to announce that we have teamed up with a one-of-a-kind education initiative, correctly termed “INNOVATE” that allows students to create their own self-directed project to work towards solutions to global and local issues while earning high school credits. INNOVATE is coordinated by Alberta Emerald Award winning teacher, Aaron Dublenko, who was recently awarded “Canada’s Greenest School” for supporting student-led environmental initiatives within the program. As part of his program, Aaron finds industry partners to help with his environmental/sustainability and humanitarian projects. That’s why we decided to reach out to Aaron and the Innovate program, to get students involved in the project. “The students can apply their learning in a real world context and touch the lives of others in the process. When we have an authentic experience like this, it doesn’t end with printing the hands and giving it to someone, it only begins there because now we get to start to imagine what is possible and how we can make the world a better place for many. Our actions have a profound impact on someone’s life. We take education for granted because we don’t understand all of the ways it effects us until we help to create the world we want to see around us.” says Aaron.We jumped at the opportunity to partner on a project to provide a number of prosthetic hands to the e-NABLE foundation. e-NABLE is a global non-profit organization built with the purpose to “enable the future” by providing 3D printed prosthetics to children in developing countries who don’t have access to such luxuries. e-NABLE made the files available online to download for anyone with a 3D printer to create. When you make something as life changing as this, two lives are impacted. The student or person actually making the prosthetic, and the child who receives it. We believe this is something much larger than just a project you put on display on your desk.
We want to put on a live event at City hall to print and assemble 30 e-NABLE hands to be donated to the initiaitve. At this event we would invite students and the general public to learn about the science and engineering behind printing, assembling and then getting the hands to the children who need them.
With each hand costing about $100 each for printing materials, printing time and hardware, the $3500 would help us provide at least 30 prosthetic hands.
We are incredibly grateful for the support of people around Canada, and the world, to help us make this project a sucess!
Calgary Hearld , Edmonton Journal , Global News, Metro News, Huffington Post, Calgary Buzz , 3D Print.com , & 660 News.
Organizer
Colin Pischke
Organizer
Calgary, AB