{"id":13768,"date":"2016-05-17T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T19:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=13768"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:28:28","slug":"a-helping-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=13768","title":{"rendered":"A helping hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Students transform lives through 3D printing\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T_-zoYeExzg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Improving the quality of life for people far too young to come to campus is the focus of one of Carolina\u2019s newest student organizations. The Helping Hand Project, launched in 2015, features a group of about 40 students who use 3-D printing to make prosthetic devices for children and adolescents born without fingers. The group can make a prosthetic hand for about $20 \u2014 far less than the thousands of dollars the devices can otherwise cost \u2014 making it possible for parents to update the prosthetic as children grow up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re printing the hands out and assembling them, it\u2019s kind of just something that you\u2019re doing,\u201d said Kierra Falbo, a recently-graduated senior with a degree in biomedical engineering from UNC&#8217;s College of Arts and Sciences and president of the Helping Hand Project. \u201cBut then when you actually deliver them and see that child use it and the happiness on their face, it\u2019s unreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>By Rob Holliday, UNC Office of Communications and Public Affairs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improving the quality of life for people far too young to come to campus is the focus of one of Carolina\u2019s newest student organizations. 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