Andrew, a student at Indian Springs High School in San Bernardino, California, designs and 3D prints prosthetic limbs for young people in his community. It’s all part of a partnership between his school and Loma Linda University, which is designed to give high school students engineering experience while helping people with disabilities obtain affordable prosthetics, says teacher Ron Del Monte. The project addresses ISTE Innovative Designer Standard 3d: “Students build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.” For his part, Andrew says he not only gets practice designing solutions, “it’s gotten me used to kind of talking with patients, opening up to them and figuring out their problem.” Find out more about ISTE Standards for Students! https://iste.org/standards/students
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Students build knowledge by exploring real world issues and gain experience in applying their learning in authentic settings. [Music] Lomolind University, who's right down the street from us, we're partnering with them. Uh our students design, 3D print prosthetic limbs or artifacts for young kids in our community where might only cost them a couple hundred dollar versus, you know, $10 or $20,000. Right now, we're kind of focusing on the lower knee cuz he doesn't have the patient does not have a knee. So, we're right now we're kind of getting the whole frame of it cuz he uses um like a sports prosthetic where it kind of looks like a little spring. So, right now we're getting the base of it to where the spring part would actually connect to it. What's kind of motivating me to do this is I wanted the patient to be able to go outside and be able to feel comfortable with himself. Eventually, I want to do this as a career. So, I kind of like that I'm getting experience right now. So, it's helping me out and it's kind of getting me used to talking to patients and being able to open up to them and to figure out their problem.
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Andrew, a student at Indian Springs High School in San Bernardino, California, designs and 3D prints prosthetic limbs for young people in his community. It’s all part of a partnership between his school and Loma Linda University, which is designed to give high school students engineering experience while helping people with disabilities obtain affordable prosthetics, says teacher Ron Del Monte. The project addresses ISTE Innovative Designer Standard 3d: “Students build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.” For his part, Andrew says he not only gets practice designing solutions, “it’s gotten me used to kind of talking with patients, opening up to them and figuring out their problem.”
Find out more about ISTE Standards for Students!
https://iste.org/standards/students
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