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Making a Difference in 3-D

Making a Difference in 3-D
In 2012, Adam Zavislak (BA, Career and Technical Information) received the Outstanding Student Business Educator Award for the State of Michigan from the Michigan Business Educators' Association, and he's already back in the news.

In early June, Mlive.com released an article about Zavislak and the work he's done with 3-D printing, specifically to help a 4-year old born without a forearm. With a team of five students from his robotics class at Forest Hills Northern High, Zavislak printed and assembled a prosthetic arm for the girl.

Design resources came from Enabling the Future, an organization that creates, innovates, designs, and redesigns plans for prosthetic hand devices and either produces the device or sends the guide to help individuals build their own.

To read the entire story at Mlive.com, click here.