A group of high school girls is participating in a global initiative; the design of a 3D printed prosthesis.

Within the “Campus Junior” at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, a group of 7 high-school girls has built a 3D printed hand prosthesis for young children around the world that need it.

The biomedical engineer Gloria Macià and the student of Biomedical Engineering Joan Puig are reponsible for the course, with the double objective to, on the one hand, increase the amount of girls that are studying an engineering degree in Catalonia (which is less than 25 %) and, on the other hand, collaborate in a social cause. According to their web, UPF has become the first educational center from Spain and the second from Europe that has been accepted to take part in The Hand Challenge initiative.

This initiative started by Dr. Craft, a primary and secondary school teacher from South Carolina in the United States, challenges any class around the world to 3D print a hand prosthesis, build it and send it to the United States where it will be exposed and sent to a child or teenager that has lost a hand due to a malformation, a war or anti-personnel mine. In this way children and teenagers help other children and teenagers around the world.