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10-year-old Lyndhurst boy to receive custom-fit prosthetic hand created
by CADD students at the Mayfield Innovation Center
What began as a classroom
lesson has become a life-changing outcome for several students, a teacher and
one 10-year-old boy.
Students in Craig Schmidt’s CADD class at the Mayfield Innovation
Center began the school year learning about computer aided drafting and design.
The lesson quickly grew after Mr. Schmidt challenged his students to create a
prosthetic hand on the 3-D printer.
The students knew they were on to something when the organization
e-Nable approved their work. e-Nable is a worldwide organization of volunteers
who offer prosthetic hands to children who were born without them.
Manny Kothe, 10 of Lyndhurst was born without a full right hand. Just
before the holidays, fate stepped in when Manny and his family met one of the
CADD students in line at the local Target. A conversation happened, calls and
meetings were made and on Monday, May
16th at 8:30 a.m. Manny will receive his custom-made blue
and gold prosthetic hand. With it he will be able to do what he has been
limited to experience, like throwing a ball and gripping objects.
“We’ve taken learning beyond the classroom,” Mr. Schmidt said. “Our
students have been able to touch someone’s life through the work they’re doing.
This went from them learning how to use a 3-D printer to giving an authentic
experience to a little boy in our community.”
The Mayfield Innovation Center is located at 6080 Wilson Mills Road.
The Innovation Center opened at the beginning of this school year to offer
Mayfield students STEM2M curriculum in such areas as Biomedicine and
Engineering.
The CADD course is an Excel TECC program based at the Mayfield Innovation
Center. Excel TECC is a career technical program that offers 18 programs to
students from nine area school districts.
For more information, contact Director of Community Relations Laurie
Uhlir 440.995.7222.