Students in the middle school 3D modeling class at Almaden Country Day School worked together to create a prosthetic hand for a third grader in their school.
The 3D modeling class at Almaden Country Day School is not a required course. Students can choose to take it.
This year, eighth grader Sarah Vender not only chose to take the course, but she also chose to take it somewhere very special.Get a weekly recap of the latest San Francisco Bay Area housing news.By the end of the school year, Vender and her classmates had designed, printed and assembled a prosthetic hand for a third grader at their school, Trent DeSantis, who had been born without a fully-formed right hand.
"I really wanted to make sure this was perfect because this was going to change his life if it went well," Vender said. The whole journey started earlier in the school year when DeSantis' mother approached Joanne Papini, the modeling class teacher. She asked if they wanted to take a crack at 3D printing a prosthetic hand for her son.
"At first, I was like, 'That will be nice for college and high school kids,'" Papini said."But I wanted to do something with it."
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