The Grade 9 student has assembled dozens of plastic face shields to protect local health-care workers, with help from his parents, Kevin and Nadia Plumb, and younger sister, Abigail, 11. He's not the only one using 3D printing to try to help health-care workers facing a shortage of personal protective equipment or PPE these days, but he might among the youngest. The company did so to encourage the public to produce and distribute the protective equipment to health-care workers across the world. Owen Plumb makes the protective face shields using his family's 3D printer at their Okotoks, Alta., home. Owen Plumb poses alongside the face shields he's made to help health-care workers in their fight against COVID-19.

Source: CBC News April 06, 2020 21:11 UTC