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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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Innovation Accelerator and taught UCF students to assemble them. After seven hours, the hands were ready to ship to CRIT Michoac\u00e1n, a children\u2019s hospital in Mexico that serves 30,000 children, most from very poor families.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a joy to see the students\u2019 excitement as they completed their hands and realized what they were capable of doing,\u201d Flood said.<\/p>\n

Flood has been a part of the global volunteer effort to design and make sophisticated 3-D-printed prostheses for the past year, teaming up with his Peck School of the Arts colleague Adream Blair and UWM students to join a group called e-Nable.<\/p>\n

E-Nable volunteers share one common goal, core member Jen Owen said. \u201cThey have a 3-D printer and they want to help someone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UWM collaborators contribute ideas and designs to e-Nable\u2019s brain trust, making them available for others to use. Flood co-created the group\u2019s newest model, which was assembled in bulk at the Microsoft Handathon.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not long ago that I told my students\u00a0that this was the kind of project that they needed to engage in \u2013 making a\u00a0difference in someone else’s life through the things they create,\u201d Flood said. \u201cI know I\u2019m going to go home with a new perspective and\u00a0focus thanks to the\u00a0experiences that I had at UCF.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more about Flood\u2019s work creating hands in the UWM Digital Craft Research Lab: https:\/\/uwm.edu\/researchreport\/ideas\/3d-printed-prosthetics\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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