I arrived to Maryland by car on Thursday after a very long road trip from Texas! After a bit of exploring over the weekend (checkout the "my travels" section of this website), Francine (DREU- paired student) and I got to meet Dr. Hurst on Monday and had a nice chat over breakfast. I then got to meet the team at the weekly Monday meeting in the PAD Lab. A group of us then took off to the University of Maryland Medical Center to observe and photograph the physical therapy students at work. Their goal was to design a clay model for their patient that would help fix their patient's need when this clay model is 3D-scanned and printed. On Wednesday, Will took us to the Digital Harbor Foundation center to meet with some of the staff there and tour the center. This center is attached to Digital Harbor High School and has many 3D printers and is staffed primarily by high school students trained in this technology. The rest of the week I read many research papers, most of which are co-authored by Dr. Hurst about AUI (adaptive user interface) pointer technology and 3D printing AT (assistive technology) applications. I also learned how to print using a 3D printer called Printrbot using the Cura software, and learned how to create my own 3D design to be printed using tinkercad.
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