A Dripping Springs High School engineering teacher and some students are poised to begin producing face shields. Through the use of 3-D printers, teacher Had Jadeja has been working in the school’s Fab Lab to develop a prototype, and some students with 3-D printers at home have offered to produce some, district spokesperson Dale Whitaker said. Jadeja ran tests the week of April 6, and the team is now ready to print working units. The shields will be offered to first responders and frontline healthcare workers in order to give them an extra level of protection against the airborne COVID-19 virus.
