PVAMU PRODUCING SHIELDS TO HELP FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19

  

To help alleviate some of the risks of fighting COVID-19, a group of educators and students at Prairie View A&M is leading an effort to make face shield masks using 3D printers.

Prairie View’s director of the Fabrication Center (Fab Center) in the School of Architecture, Stephen Song (SoA) says he saw a way that the university could make a difference.

Song along with Abel Simie, manager of the Fab Center, graduate students Ruben Cheeks and Edgar Ruiz, and undergraduate student Yessenia Davila, are producing Face shields, worn in conjunction with other masks, increasing the lifespan of the protective equipment.

The face shields will be donated to health care workers who are fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Song said, “We hope that what we produce will assist health care workers, especially during this time when the supply of face masks is going through a severe shortage.”

The Prairie View A&M group began their work this week.