[The video starts by fading to cell phone footage of a small boy (five-year-old Andrew from Seattle, WA) eating cereal and opening up a box he received in the mail from Brandeis. Throughout the video white text is displayed along the bottom mirroring the audio. We hear some nostalgic music fade in.]
[Cut to our featured student, David Bressler from the Prosthesis Club. While he speaks, scenes of Andrew opening his package are interspersed.]
David: "Look at this awesome video that Karen, Andrew's mom, had sent to us. I thought it was really cute."
Andrew: "Oh my gosh!"
Karen: "What is it?"
David: "He was born with only the fingers he had, which was just two [on one hand], and then the rest were fused.”
Cut to the cell phone footage of Andrew.
Karen: "Can you see what's inside?"
Andrew: "Yes!"
Karen: "What is it?”
[We continue to see the cell phone footage of Andrew opening the package he received.]
David: "Children outgrow prosthetics really quickly.”
[Close up shot of David handling a blue prosthetic they have made.]
David: "Prosthetics can cost from like $5,000 to $30,000 dollars, depending on the quality and what they’re worth. So, we want to be able to do it, for free, so they don't have to spend all of this money."
David: “I am the president of the Prosthesis Club.”
[On-screen text reads: David Bressler ’20 – Prosthesis Club President. David works alongside another student looking at prosthetic models on a computer monitor.]
David: “We work with the Brandeis MakerLab.”
[David is looking at different 3D printers. Close up shot of a 3D printer running in fast motion. Close up shot of a different 3D printer creating a prosthetic model.]
David: “We use their printers, their materials, but we know about the prosthetics.”
[Wide shot of students in the MakerLab. Close up shot of a student working on a prosthetic hand.]
David: “So, working together we can create this functioning, working, robotic hand.”
[Close up of a prosthetic holding a ball. Cut back to Andrew continuing to open up his package which we see is one of the prosthetic hands the Maker Lab has created.]
Andrew opens the package and exclaims "Whoa! What’s this?"
David: "When I first joined, I didn't know anything about the club, or 3D printing, at all. I didn't know how to build a hand. I thought it was really interesting, I really liked what they were doing. To be able to give someone the opportunity to, have a functioning limb."
[We see shots of students building a hand, a close up of the 3D printer in action, David looking at prosthetic models on his computer monitor, working with other students, and building a hand himself. David smiles to someone off camera while holding a prosthetic hand.]
David: “They ask for a hand, or an arm, and we request to work with them, and then once they choose you, then you can start building their hand.”
[David handles a different prosthetic hand. We see another close up of a 3D printer in action.]
David: “We 3D print the parts, then we assemble them, and then we ship them out.”
[Cut back to Andrew playing with his new prosthetic hand at the breakfast table.]
Andrew: "Oh! Wow!"
David: "No two hands have ever been the same. Everyone wants a different design, they have different functionality, different capabilities.”
[David shows different prosthetics to the camera.]
David: "He wanted a Iron Man hand.”
[We see students working in the Maker Lab.]
David: "So we printed the hand in red, the fingers in gold, a white circle that we glued on to the palm of his hand."
[Another close up shot of a 3D printer appears. We see students working on a prosthetic in the Maker Lab and another shot of a 3D printer. We see students in black and white, as well as the color red, working on building prosthetic hands as well as David speaking on camera. We see David working on a prosthetic hand with other students in the Maker Lab as well as speaking on screen in both close up and wide shots in the Maker Lab. Cut back to Andrew testing out his new Iron Man hand at the breakfast table.]
Andrew: "A finger!"
Karen: "Finger …”
Andrew: "Iron Man!"
Karen: "Is that Iron Man's hand?"
Andrew: "Yeah."
Karen: "Oh wow, that's so cool!"
Andrew: "Who give me this?"
David: "I want to give them the chance to be able to throw a ball, or play catch with their parents or ride their bike."
[Cut back to students gathering in the Maker Lab during their Prosthetics Club meeting.]
David speaks on screen: "It was the first time that we actually got to see our hand being used,"
[Cut back to Andrew beginning to use his Prosthetic hand at the breakfast table. Cut to David assembling working with a printer as well as another close up of a 3D printer.]
David: "and it felt like we were actually doing something meaningful, and important."
[We see David continuing to work in the Maker Lab at Brandeis. Cut to a shot of Andrew waving goodbye using the prosthetic hand. The screen fades to on-screen text reading "Brandeis.edu" which shortly fades to black while the music fades out bringing the video to a close.]