Durham, North Carolina – Students in Vance Kite’s project-based disease and society class at City of Medicine Academy are doing amazing things with a 3D printer and their passion to help others.
Kite’s students are using a 3D printer to create a prosthetic hand for Matthew DiFrancesco, a 12-year-old Franklinton middle-school student who was born without one of his.
Read all about the 3D printer creating prosthetics for kids by Gregory Childress.
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