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Tennessee Tech, other schools use 3D printers to create face shields for health care workers
Nashville's newschannel5.com interviewed civil engineering student Kyle Wendt in the
iMakerSpace about joining the fight against COVID-19 by using 3D printers to produce
face shields to guard against coronavirus – watch it here.
Wendt and five of his classmates who were on campus during spring break participated in the statewide effort by several colleges to produce 3D printed bands for face shields for hospital workers as the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville was one of at least nine campuses across the state to join a initiative to use their 3D printers to assist healthcare workers. Students and faculty created nearly 400 bands in just a few days, with a statewide goal of producing at least 10,000. In all, Tech students produced 2,500 shield bands.
The bands were shipped to Austin Peay State University in Clarksville where the face shields were made and packaged. Officials with the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency distributed them to an unknown number of hospitals that requested the shields.
“We never thought we’d be making thousands of masks for a pandemic,” Kyle Wendt, Civil Engineering student, told NewsChannel 5.5.
