OXNARD, CA (11.30.2020) – Scosche is very pleased to share this news story of local (to them) Ventura County award-winning STEM students, who in 2017 formed a nonprofit. This year in the midst of a pandemic, they designed, manufactured and supplied more than 20,000 PPE face shields for frontline healthcare workers in Ventura County hospitals, and to healthcare facilities worldwide.
Here’s an excerpt from the article:
As the COVID-19 pandemic first began to spread earlier this year, there was a desperate need across the country for personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers.
“We didn’t know where we were going to get our supplies,” said Dr. Richard Rutherford, director of quality and safety for the Ventura County Medical Center and Santa Paula Hospitals.
In stepped 17 high school students who make up the STEMbassadors team, a student-led non profit founded in 2017 with the primary objective of filling the need for applied STEM education in K-12 schools.
Two of their students, Patrick Waechter and Anshul Bajaj conceived the idea of manufacturing face shields needed at five local hospitals in Ventura County. For Waechter, it was personal. His mom is a nurse at the Ventura County Medical Center.
They took the idea of using 3D printers to make face shields to Alex Wulff, a middle school teacher who has mentored students from his position at DATA Middle School and is also CEO of the nonprofit.
They tried out a few prototypes and took them to Dr. Robertson. The goal was to make 4,000 face shields.
They manufactured over 20,000 by the middle of summer and not only have supplied all the hospitals in Ventura County but have also shipped their product to Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, India and Mozambique.
As a result, STEMbassadors will be honored at the California Economic Summit on December 3rd as a winner in the 2020 Partnerships for Industry and Education (PIE) contest.
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“Scosche was proud to play a small part in this valuable project and we are so impressed by the ingenuity, determination and hard work of this remarkable group of students and their instructor. This level of STEM education, engagement and care for others makes us thankful and truly gives us hope for the future.”
In addition to supporting local efforts to slow the tide of the rising pandemic, Scosche has implemented regular anti-microbial spraying, in addition to all other required safety and work from home requirements to keep their staff safe. They are very thankful to have been able to retain 100% of their staff.
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