Sixty-seven 3-D-printed prosthetic hands are on the way to children in Mexico thanks in part to UW-Milwaukee Associate Professor Frankie Flood.
Microsoft Corp. recruited Flood to help lead a team of students at its Handathon event at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Flood printed the parts for 20 hands at UWM’s Innovation Accelerator and taught UCF students to assemble them. After seven hours, the hands were ready to ship to CRIT Michoacán, a children’s hospital in Mexico that serves 30,000 children, most from very poor families.
“It was a joy to see the students’ excitement as they completed their hands and realized what they were capable of doing,” Flood said.
