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| Caleb - My name is Caleb Charette, I'm 15 years old, currently in grade 9, and I am a member of the "Synthetic 3D Printed Heart" project. Our project is testing the ability to use a 3D printer to create a functioning heart. We drew inspiration for our project from our families and our passion for medicine. My partner, Riley Geisler, and I both wish to become surgeons one day, and we both also have close family impacted by heart disease. We wanted to create a project that not only related to medicine, and our families, but also incorporated the technology we have at our school. We decided we wanted to use our schools 3D printer, and began to plan our project. We want to be able to take this project further than just CWSF, we want to make this a real option for saving lives. We are currently working on getting a patent for our heart, and hope to continue our project after CWSF. My advice to anyone wanting to create a project is to think outside the box, use as much the technology available as you can, and be passionate about it. | | Riley - My partner Caleb Charette and I took up the idea of 3D printing a synthetic, functional heart, as a way to incorporate our passion for medicine and available technology at West Ferris Secondary School, in North Bay, Ontario. We both grew up in small towns outside of North Bay, with plans to attend McGill University for a bachelor degree. I wish to attend an Ivy League school for my M.D. Our almost unfathomable thinking led us to the fabrication of our project. We plan to continue our project after the Canada-Wide Science Fair in hopes of saving lives and maybe earning a scholarship along the way. Our project has enlightened the two of us, and the advice we give to fellow students is to fall in love with your topic. You're by nature going to spend more time and effort on your project if it's something you enjoy doing, and want to know everything about. |
| Caleb Charette, Riley Geisler
Synthetic 3-D Printed Heart
| Challenge: | Innovation | | Category: | Intermediate | | Region: | North Bay | | City: | Callander, ON, Powassan, ON | | School: | West Ferris S.S. | | Abstract: | This project incorporated medicine and technology to build an anatomically correct human heart model. A 3-D printer was used with computer software and synthetic materials. The final result was a scaled model of a heart, with similar anatomical features. This project showed that printing inexpensive 3-D hearts was possible and could lead to further development of printing a functional heart. |
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