Turning into a Limb Difference Superhero
Every time I tell Jordan about a new baby born with a limb difference, she cheers. That’s because she isn’t sad about living with one hand. It’s a blessing.
How many kids with two hands can say they have a bunch of extra hands? Two-handed kids don’t have a chance to go to Camp No Limits unless they have a sibling with a limb difference. Two-handed kids didn’t get to learn 3D design and build a custom superhero cyborg prosthetic the shoots glitter on a pier in San Francisco.
No, really. Jordan was given another amazing one-handed opportunity.
With the help of 3D design software company, Autodesk and an education organization called KIDmob, Jordan and I had a chance to travel to San Francisco to take part in Superhero Cyborg 2.0. It was an event I blogged about back in December, but I totally didn’t envision Jordan joining in on the experience.
The goal of the event: To give kids with upper limb differences a chance to use their arm to his or her advantage and create something awesome. The parents dropped the kids off each morning to work with a team of designers, artists and even a prosthetist. The kids were taught to brainstorm, draw out a vision and execute that vision using 3D printing software.
Jordan started with different drawings, thinking about what kind of superhero she likes the most, came up with some different ideas and ended up with a starburst-looking device with five glitter shooters. Here’s how she explains how it works. (She was explaining it to an Autodesk employee, and I shot video at the same time.)
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My friend was not thought full when we were reading the scholastic paper and he said why can’t people with limb differences just wait until 25 years to get cheaper prostedictes there are more important things out in the world than just limb differences.but I disagree with him.#gojorden I love progect unicon.