Amazing! A teen girl from Ecuador is able to write her name for the first time in three years, thanks to the work of high school students from Cleveland and a nonprofit that delivers medical care overseas.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A teen girl from Ecuador is again able to write her name for the first time in three years, thanks to the work of high school students from Cleveland and a nonprofit that delivers medical care overseas.Nerve damage in her right arm left her unable to move that arm, wiggle her fingers or open and close her hand.
“Knowing you’re doing something that big – changing a life – is amazing,” said fellow robotics team member Karla Zorrilla, a senior at the same school. Teens from East Technical High School, MC2Stem High School, Davis Aerospace and Maritime High School and John Marshall School of Information Technology meet at the science center to build industrial-sized robots for competitions across the country.
Among the biggest challenges during the arm’s construction were connecting tiny pins inside the fingers to a mechanism in the palm, and learning to use a 3D printer, students said. IMAHelps co-founder and CEO Ines Allen called the project “an amazing miracle.” Allen, who came to the United States as a child, started the nonprofit to address the need for medical care in her native Equador.
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