Save-A-Joint consist of 4 members, Paola E, Jackie G, Stephanie L and Jennifer M. In our biomedical pathway we are creating an elbow pad to protect the elbow joint for fellow roller derby participants. In roller derby it’s very rare for a player to injure their elbow, but accidents do happen, if a player falls... Continue Reading →
Evolution of Hand Model – Maggie Saucedo
We are currently working on making a hand model to represent the joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments in the hand. Our progress has actually been pretty great. Last class in the maker space we figured out a clever way to represent muscle with red wire. The red wire is easily moldable and foldable. We managed to wrap... Continue Reading →
Save-A-Joint Progress- Jennifer M.
Save-a-joint has been hard at work and started working on building a scale model of the elbow joint! We've been looking at endless number of diagrams and researching needs that our device needs to fulfill. Using what we've learned these past couple of weeks we're almost done building our model. Before starting our model, we... Continue Reading →
Summary and Reflection-Ally, Isabella, Sarahi, Shana
ReJoint Inc. is a team determined to solve protection problems for joints. The team members are: Ally, the “Shaper,” Isabella, the “Coordinator,” Sarahi, the “Solver,” and Shana, the “Implementer.” The mission statement for our company is: “ReJoint Inc. promises to treat all members with dignity and respect, and to present problems in a way that... Continue Reading →
OrthoDocs – Vania N., Zaira R., Brenda V., Apolonia V.
Our team is OrthoDocs which consists of Vania N.: Completer/Team Leader, Zaira R.: Coordinator, Brenda V.: Resource/Investigator and Apolonia V.: Solver. The Fall semester was a semester of trial and error, it mostly involved miscommunication through team members as well as sometimes not having every team member be cooperative. When work needed to be completed,... Continue Reading →
DAP Project Application – Maggie Saucedo, Lily Yepez, Ebheni Henderson, Emmaline Jeansonne
Our team name is The Joint Protection Project. Our team members consist of Ebheni Henderson as the coordinator and team leader, Maggie Saucedo as the Completer/Finisher, Lily Yepez as the Specialist and Emmaline Jeansonne the shaper. During the first semester we worked well together but many times lacked motivation to do extra work outside of... Continue Reading →