Vancleave students use 3D printing to save an injured turtle
Jackson County elementary students are working on a project that could help an injured animal recover, and they’re coming up with a pretty high tech solution.
The gifted robotics team at Vancleave Upper Elementary wanted to find a way to help animals using 3D printing. So they contacted Wild At Heart Rescue that happened to have a rescued turtle named Jigsaw in need of a new piece of shell.
Now, the students are in the design process to figure out the best way to print a prosthetic shell replacement for Jigsaw.
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This Week In Turtles…
The next meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Turtle & Tortoise Society (MATTS) is Saturday, March 3rd, in Catonsville, MD, from 6 – 8:30pm. Chris Leone of theTurtleRoom and Garden State Tortoise will be the guest speaker. He’ll discuss the proper care, breeding, and understanding of Mediterranean tortoises (Hermann’s, Egyptian, Greek, Marginated, and Russian tortoises). Chris is a great speaker and he has fabulous enclosures to show us, as well as the tortoises. There will be live tortoises and adoptable turtles on display.
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