Scott Johnson used the 3D printer in his STEAM lab for a lot of good.
"I’m very excited," said Jacob Grubb, a sophomore in Atherton's health science academy. "I did not expect it to be this big, and it’s way better than what we had last year where it was just like an auditorium kind of thing and we just had a big space."
A final product is slated for testing this fall in Russia.
The Louisville-based company and its micro factory First Build are using printers to make face shields that will be donated to U of L and given to medical workers.
Brent Doty, one of the college’s computer aided drafting and design instructors, has been printing the face shields while continuing to teach eight online classes.
Indiana-based company Techshot Inc. was able to successfully print with human heart cells in space using a bioprinter.
The device itself, 3D-printed at the school, is a small plastic box, about the length of a syringe and a few inches wide.
The printer is expected to be used to print human tissue based on stem cells. That tissue could eventually grow into human organs.