High school students invent innovative prosthetic hand, qualify for national engineering finals
A prosthetic hand designed for typing has garnered national attention for the inventors—a group of high school students.
A prosthetic hand designed for typing has garnered national attention for the inventors—a group of high school students. Next it’s off to a national engineering design competition as one of five finalists nationwide.
According to excerpts from the story:
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – Mrs. Gasper’s engineering students at Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School invented a prosthetic hand that they call the Handy Typer .
It helps with the obvious…typing…but also “it helps in terms of holding mainly because of the rubber coating, so it does grip,” said student Kevin Greene. They say the purpose behind the device was to create something they could enter in the National Engineering Design Challenge through JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society).
The design made it to the finals — one of five nationwide. Some motivation close to home helped the students focus in on their product.
Read the complete story here.
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