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From YouTube: Jen Owen: e-NABLE 3D Printed Prosthetics in STEM | Creating the Next Generation of Changemakers
Description
e-NABLE is a global movement of makers who are using 3D printing to create free 3D printed hands and arms for those who were born missing their fingers or have lost their limbs due to war, natural disaster, accident or illness. There are approximately 20,000 e-NABLE volunteers in over 100 countries worldwide who have collaborated to create and gift an estimated 10,000 free 3D printed hands and arms to those in need. There are over 2000 schools in dozens of countries who have incorporated e-NABLE into their STEM-based learning environments.
During this presentation, participants will learn how they can use the e-NABLE project to teach their students that they themselves have the power to change people's lives by using their ideas and imaginations to solve real-world problems with 3D printing and rapid prototyping technology. We will share other ways in which educators can get their students involved in their local communities and use 3D printing to make a difference.
Jen Owen is a Co-founder of e-NABLE and owner and co-creator of enablingthefuture.org, a website dedicated to sharing the open-source designs and stories from a global community of volunteers who are creating free 3D printed hands and arms for those who were born missing fingers or who have lost them due to war, accident, natural disaster or disease.
Her philanthropic focus for the past 8 years has involved helping to found and collaboratively lead e-NABLE, a global movement of makers and digital humanitarians who strive to increase the accessibility of prosthetic hands for children and introduce 3D printing technology and curriculums into STEM-based learning environments around the world.
What started as a fun cosplay costume project in her family’s garage, turned out to be a catalyst in a series of incredibly timed events that led to the creation of the first 3D printed prosthetic hand for a single child in South Africa and has since grown into a worldwide passion project of over 20,000 of volunteers in over 100 countries and approximately 3000 schools who have delivered an estimated 10,000 or more free 3D printed assistive devices to children and adults in need of a “helping hand.”
Jen’s presentations are inspirational, personal and from the heart. Her examples of making a difference in the world leave audience members inspired and encouraged to use their ideas and imaginations to create collaborative programs in their own communities and start making a difference as well.
She is an internationally recognized blog author, photographer, storyteller, graphic designer and philanthropist from Washington State and currently works as the Creative Director for 3D Universe.
Please visit http://enablingthefuture.org for more information on how to get involved.
A
All
right,
my
name
is
Jen
Owen
and
I
am
one
of
the
cofounders
of
enable,
which
is
a
global
community
of
volunteers
who
are
making
free,
3d
printed
prosthetic
for
people
all
over
the
world.
Quite
a
lot
of
them
are
children.
Most
of
them
are
children,
and
we
are
just
a
group
of
basic
people.
You
know
tinkerers
students,
teachers,
engineers,
jewelers
artists,
dancers,
puppeteers,
they've,
all
just
come
together
over
the
last
few
years
to
work
together
and
collaborate
to
make
free
open-source
designs
for
people
who
need
prosthetics
and
have
no
other
option.
A
A
little
bit
of
a
backstory
enable
kind
of
started
with
a
stranger
who
reached
out
to
another
stranger
and
one
stranger
gave
the
other
guy
the
finger
after
working
together
for
over
a
year
collaboratively
from
10,000
miles
apart.
So
they
had
been
working
together
on
this
metal
design.
One
finger
I
had
started
blogging
about
it
and
sharing
about
it
as
they
were
progressing
and
after
a
little
bit,
they
were.
A
One
of
the
strangers
was
in
the
US
and
one
was
in
South
Africa,
and
so
they
were
getting
ready
to
come
together
and
just
about
that
time,
a
mother
of
a
five-year-old
little
boy
named
Liam
in
South
Africa,
found
out
that
they
had
been
working
on
this
design
for
one
finger
and
he
was
born
missing.
All
of
his
fingers
on
his
right
hand,
and
she
reached
out
to
us
through
Facebook,
to
find
out
if
they
would
be
interested
in
helping
to
make
a
full
set
of
fingers
instead
of
just
the
one.
A
And
so
they
decided
that
they
were
going
to
help
him
and
they
collaborated
and
built
him
a
functional
prototype
that
he
was
able
to
use
and
it
was
made
out
of
rivets
and
aluminum
bar
stock,
some
thermoplastic
some
fishing
line
and-
and
it
had
four
fingers
but
no
thumb.
But
for
the
first
time
in
his
life
he
was
able
to
pick
something
up.
It
worked
by
strapping
it
to
his
arm
and
when
he
bent
his
wrist
at
forced
the
fingers
closed.
A
After
the
first
design
was
created
for
him
and
they
realized
that
he
was
going
to
outgrow
that
thing
within
six
months
or
so,
and
it
had
taken
them
a
good.
You
know
24
30
hours
of
build
time,
so
they
wanted
to
come
up
with
a
design
that
could
be
created
easily
and
quickly,
and
so
at
that
time
it
was
right
when
a
MakerBot
was
just
getting
started
out.
There
really
getting
their
name
out
there,
but
it
was
also
at
the
same
time
that
3d
printed
guns
were
happening.
A
A
Would
you
give
us
two,
and
they
said
yes,
so
they
gave
us
up
3d
printer
and
they
gave
the
other
guy
in
South,
Africa,
3d,
printer,
and
so
the
designer
here
in
the
US
was
able
to
design
it
email
the
file
and
they
would
print
it
out
in
South,
Africa
and
Liam
would
try
them
out
in
January
of
2013.
Then,
after
going
back
and
forth
for
a
year
for
four
weeks
on,
they
were
able
to
come
up
with
a
really
good,
robust
base
design
for
him.
A
He
would
test
it
out,
send
us
videos,
he
was
five
years
old
and
he
would
honestly
tell
you
if
what
they
had
made
it
sucked,
and
that
was
the
best
feedback
we
could
possibly
get,
and
this
hurts
that
doesn't
work.
I
can't
pick
up.
My
ball
make
this
better
guys,
you're
the
adults,
so
they
gave
it
out
and
he
was
able
to
you
know
ride
his
bike.
Hold
a
pop-can
plate,
tennis
play
cricket.
He
was
using
that
thing
all
over
the
place
after
we
had
started
working
with
Liam.
A
We
started
doing
research
because
we
didn't
know
how
he
had
lost
his
fingers
until
his
mom
educated
us
there's.
This
condition
called
amniotic
band
syndrome
where,
when
the
the
child
is
growing
aside,
the
mother,
sometimes
there's
bands
from
the
uterus
that
reach
around
and
kind
of
grab
your
fingers
or
your
toes
or
your
arms
I'm
kind
of
like
when
you're
sleeping
and
you
wake
up
and
your
toe
is
on
fire,
because
your
sock
string
has
wrapped
around
your
your
toe
and
it's
cutting
off
the
circulation.
A
That's
what
happens
with
amniotic
band
syndrome,
so
he
would
have
been
born
with
all
5
fingers.
But
in
his
case
and
one
in
1,200
children
in
the
US
alone,
they
they
end
up
with
missing
fingers
and
hands,
and
we
realized
that
there
were
thousands
of
children
all
over
the
world,
not
just
who
had
this
condition
but
who
also
were
harmed
in
wars,
lost
limbs
from
meningitis
and
illnesses
and
accidents.
A
So,
instead
of
keeping
the
design
and
patenting
it,
we
collectively
decided
to
give
it
as
an
open
source
design
open
to
the
general
public
and
the
the
first
design
was
created
by
a
puppeteer
and
a
carpenter.
Neither
of
them
had
engineering
experience
whatsoever,
and
so
they
knew
that,
since
this
was
working
for
Liam,
they
knew
that
there
were.
Thousands
of
people
are
there
who
had
access
to
3d
printers,
who
could
maybe
take
the
design
and
make
it
even
better
so
sharing
an
open-source.
A
A
A
A
But
while
we
had
a
lot
of
kids
in
South
America
and
the
US
who
were
really
interested
in
having
the
flashy
bright
colorful
hands,
we
started
getting
feedback
from
chapters
in
places
where
having
something
strapped
to
your
body
that
draws
attention
to
your
limb.
Difference
is
actually
more
harmful.
They
would
rather
blend
in
and
not
draw
attention
to
their
limb
difference.
There
are
some
places
where,
if
you
have
a
limb
difference,
you're
not
allowed
to
go
to
school
ever
like
you
are
you're
banished
to
a
limb
difference
camp!
A
You
you,
you
can't
work
your
your
whole
family
who's.
Relying
on
you
fitting
in
is
what
they
needed,
and
so
collectively
as
a
community.
We
worked
with
Jeremy
at
3d
universe,
to
kind
of
pull
the
community
and
find
out
I
think
he
put
together
some
some
sheets
with
different
colors
and
we
all
kind
of
just
decided
on
four
four
main
colors.
A
A
The
recipients
after
a
while
started
giving
us
feedback
at
first.
They
were
just
really
grateful
to
have
something
at
all,
and
then
they
started
taking
our
requests
for
feedback.
How
do
we
make
this
better?
We
don't
get
one
I
just
make
it
flashy
for
you.
We
want
it
to
actually
function
and
give
you
some
kind
of
ability
to
grasps
things
and
we
started
getting
some
interesting
feedback
from
the
kids
go
figure.
A
A
This
claw
design
here
he
actually
designed
that
himself
on
a
napkin
at
Johns,
Hopkins
prosthetist
meets
printers
conference
where
he
had
been
helping.
He
was
teaching
other
kids
how
to
build
their
own
enable
hands
and
he
took
two
and
went
oh.
This
is
like
the
claw
in
that
machine.
I
could
do
so
many
things,
so
he
designed
his
claw
hand
and
then
he
started.
He
started
saying
things
like
you
know.
This
hand
is
cool
and
all,
but
it
doesn't
hold
my
soda
or
if
it
does,
I
have
to
keep
my
wrist
bent.
A
So
I
can
hold
my
soda.
Could
you
make
me
a
soda
pop
holder?
I
want
to
play
uno
with
my
brother
and
he's
got
two
fully
functional
hands
and
I?
Don't
how
do
I
hold
my
cards
and
then,
of
course
he
just
wanted
a
Lego
adaptor,
so
he
could
make
a
sword
and
the
community
really
started
picking
up
on
that.
We
had.
You
know,
requests
for
violin,
bow
holders,
guitar
pick
holders
bicycle
attachments,
something
that
they
didn't
have
to
wear
all
day,
because
they
really
just
wanted
to
use
it
to
ride
their
bike.
A
A
A
A
So
after
after
the
first
two
years
of
all
this
feedback,
I
really
wanted
to
see
what
would
happen
if
we
gave
them
other
challenges.
We
were.
We
were
known
as
enable
making
free
3d
printed
prosthetic
hands,
but
being
able
is
so
much
more
than
that
being
able
is
a
movement,
it's
about
helping
people
using
your
ideas
and
your
imaginations
and
your
technology
and
your
resources
to
come
up
with
solutions
to
help
other
people.
A
So
I
collaborated
with
Mara
at
Mater
hackers,
and
we
were
talking
about
how
you
know:
there's
there's
a
lot
of
people
who
have
strokes,
there's
a
lot
of
people
who
have
their
hands
but
have
lost
function
due
to
illnesses
or
nerve
damage
or
or
arthritis,
and
so
we
design
we
came
up
with
a
contest
a
couple
years
ago.
I
think
it's
two
years
ago
called
Within
Reach
and
we
had
we
we
put
out
there.
Hey
we've
got
all
these
people
who
need
help
with
daily
tasks.
A
A
Well,
globally,
it
is
estimated
at
approximately
1.3
billion
people
live
with
some
form
of
vision,
impairment
and
approximately
one
hundred
and
eighty
eight
point.
Five
million
people
have
mild
vision
impairment
and
there
are
quite
a
few
people
who
do
not
have
the
privilege
of
knowing
what
a
platypus
looks
like
or
staring
at
the
sky
and
seeing
the
Big
Dipper,
but
with
3d
printing
you
can
3d
print
something
and
with
with
really
good
detail,
and
you
can
put
it
in
a
visually
impaired
persons,
hand
and
they
will
now
know
what
a
platypus
looks
like.
A
They
will
now
know
what
Texas
looks
like
and
I
partnered
up
with
matter
hackers
again,
and
we
did
another
challenge
and
we
asked
that
the
global
community
to
create
tactile
learning
tools
that
teachers
could
print
out
right
there
in
the
classroom.
So,
if
they're
giving
a
talk
on,
you
know,
the
Stars
they're
visually
impaired
student
can
feel
what
ohryan
looks
like
in
the
sky.
A
A
We've
got
some
some
high
school
students
who
are
you
know
they're
they're,
going
on
into
changing
their
their
idea
of
what
they
want
to
be
when
they
grow
up.
It's
been
really
really
incredible:
to
watch
an
enable
is
helping
to
inspire
the
next
generation
of
changemakers.
This
is
probably
one
of
my
favorite
tweets
after
video
about
3d
printed
hands
by
enable
the
future
one.
Fourth,
grader
I,
don't
want
to
be
an
NBA
player
anymore.
I
want
to
be
an
engineer.
A
And
now
the
students
are
becoming
teachers
on
this
classroom,
got
tired
of
making
just
assembling
hands
and
giving
them
to
give
to
recipients.
They
wanted
to
figure
out
how
else
they
could
change
other
people's
lives,
so
they
started
reaching
out
to
their
Retirement
Center
and
they
took
their
3d
printer
and
their
students
to
the
Retirement
Center
and
sat
down
with
the
elderly
patients
there
and
asked
them.
What
do
you
need?
What
can
we
make
for
you
that
will
make
your
life
easier
here
and
they
taught
them
about
3d
printing.
They
taught
them
Tinkercad.
A
Recipients
are
also
becoming
teachers.
This
is
Aaron,
he
is
Lim
different
and
he
helped
to
design
his
his
prosthetic
arm.
Then
he
turned
around
and
started
a
program
at
his
school
where
he
was
collecting
plastic
cups
to
recycle
into
filament
to
make
into
hands.
Then
he
started
a
non-profit
and
now
he's
going
out
and
teaching
at
schools
about
3d,
printing
and
how
to
change
the
world
with
your
ideas.
A
A
He
got
a
little
bored
with
that,
so
he
started
3d
printing
and
designing
new
tools
getting
feedback
from
his
friends
and
himself,
and
so
what
could
could
be
made
better
and
what
would
work
for
them?
And
now
Cameron
is
out
there
not
just
a
volunteer
and
a
designer,
but
now
he's
a
teacher,
he's
teaching
other
children
and
he's
teaching
teachers
how
to
make
3d
printed
hands.
A
A
You
could
invite
them
to
help
design
low-cost
3d
printed
medical
devices.
There's
this
nonprofit
called
field-ready
and
they
they
can
make
stethoscopes
for
a
couple
cents
versus
trying
to
import
them
to
places
and
pay
the
taxes
and
the
fees
and
everything
you
could
have
them.
Prototyping
for
3d
printable,
affordable
housing,
there's
a
village
of
3d
printed
houses
that
were
created
in
Mexico
I
believe
just
recently.
A
It's
also
this
cool
new
website
called
toy
rescue
where
they
rescue
broken
toys
and
instead
of
sending
them
to
the
landfill
they
have.
People
take
the
the
toys
and
redesign
an
arm
for
Barbie
I.
Think
it's
I
believe
it's
toy
rescue
comm.
If
you're
interested
in
that
I,
am
currently
working
with
an
Ultimaker
and
3d
universe.
We
have
a
stem
challenge
going
on
that
I
hope
all
of
you
who
are
teachers
or
who
know
teachers
or
who
have
students
or
children
who
know
teachers
will
enter
by
February
29th.
A
A
We
want
to
encourage
them
to
not
just
think
about
making
3d
printed
hands.
We
want
them
to
think
about
other
ways
that
they
could
make
a
difference
in
the
world
whether
that's
bingo
chips
for
the
elderly,
or
you
know,
random
things
for
homeless
people
or
whatever,
whatever
they
can
think
of
birdhouses
for
the
little
birds
that
are
frozen
in
Chicago.
A
This
quote
is
really
powerful
to
me.
I
think
that
more
teachers
are
are
really
doing
an
awesome
job
of
giving
kids
lessons
in
real
world
problems
to
solve
and
I
think
that,
with
the
enable
community,
we
have
been
able
to
give
an
example
of
what
what
kids
can
do,
and
hopefully
they
take
that
and
they
their
imagination
soar
and
they
figure
out
how
else
they
can.
They
can
change
the
world
to
date.
We
have
an
estimated
about
30,000
volunteers,
all
over
the
world.