Nov 28, 2016
STOUGHTON — Ian Bormett is a teenager with a lot going on. He’s on the Stoughton High School swim team, the track team, the school newspaper and the student senate. He’s a triathlete with lots of friends and a 3.96 GPA.
But when he learned of a neighborhood boy who’d been on the waiting list for a prosthetic left hand for almost two years, he set about making him one with a 3-D printer in his school’s fabrication lab. More
Jonah Friedrich, 11, born without a left hand, demonstrates the new hand and arm Ian Bormett, left, made for him using his high school's 3D printer.
