Mrs. Frawley Uses 3D Printers to Aid Healthcare Workers
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Harrison High School Harrison NY 10528 www.harrisoncsd.org June 2020 Volume 24 Issue 3 Mrs. Frawley Uses 3D Printers to Aid Healthcare Workers Jack Kelly Co-News Editor In such an unprecedented crisis as the masks. Once the daughter’s idea proved fea- already donated 120 current pandemic, it is imperative that every- sible, Mrs. Frawley was asked to join in and face shields to White one helps the larger community and gives back contribute her own technology skills. Plains Hospital and 50 in whatever ways they can. For healthcare With the permission of Dr. Wool, Mrs. face shields to Good workers, that means being on the front lines Frawley and her husband took home Harri- Samaritan Hospital. and caring bravely for those who are sick. For son’s 3D printers so that they could start their Their production system other essential workers, like those who work own operation in coordination with their daugh- for personal protective at grocery stores or janitorial staff, giving back ter. The whole Frawley family started with mak- equipment is continu- entails continuing to do their job so society can ing face shields where the printers could print ing and getting better continue to function. Letter writing, digital fund- out plastic pieces to hold a face shield. Shortly with time, meaning that raising, and oral history projects are some of after, the Frawleys moved onto making masks these numbers will con- as well. tinue to increase and The idea for the masks was an inspi- that more people will be ration from skilled technology faculty at helped. SUNY New Paltz. In New Paltz the uni- When asked about versity is creating 200 masks a day, which how her own experienc- has been a tremendous aid to healthcare es influenced this pas- workers who need protection. Through sion project that she has some research and dedication, the Fraw- taken on, Mrs. Frawley Donating and dropping off. Mrs. Frawley is captured while delivering leys were able to use the public 3D printer remarked, “I have al- the newly created PPEs to the New York Medical College. The project shows students that what they learn in class has real-world applications. plans from SUNY New Paltz to start mak- ways tried to live my life ing their own masks. with a global perspec- Courtesy of Mrs. Diane Frawley They printed the actual plastic mask tive. The IB program at piece with the printers and then for the Harrison has been so Frawley’s teaching at Harrison to her using place to breathe, they have been using fitting for me as a teacher and as a person. supplies that Harrison students won in the Ver- N-95 compliant fabric. The design of only This project has really enabled me to show my izon Innovative App Challenge, represents the using the fabric for the breathing part of students how what they learn in the classroom best of Harrison and our global learning pro- the mask allows the mask to be reused. has direct real-world applications.” gram. Even though current conditions prevent When the mask has already been worn, Mrs. Frawley also elaborated on what giv- our Spring Sports schedule and pep rally cel- the plastic can be sanitized with clean- ing back means to her. ebration, the truth is that we are finding other ing products, and then the fabric can be “I never want to tell someone what to ways for all members of our Harrison Central baked in the oven to kill any possible coro- do or how to act, but I will always encourage School District to display their Husky pride. navirus. people to give back to their community,” she At any one time, the 3D printers said. “Whether that involves clapping out- from Harrison have the capability to make side at 7:00 p.m. or helping a neighbor with six of either the face shields or masks. their groceries, do what you can do. For me, Husky Pride made real. Here are 70 new face shields The printing process takes a few hours, giving back is personal since my son got a delivered to White Plains Hospital, courtesy of Mrs. Frawley and the school's 3D printers. enabling dozens of personal protective second chance when he got his heart trans- Courtesy of Mrs. Diane Frawley equipment apparati to be made in a sin- plant. I will never be able to repay what the gle day. healthcare workers did for my family when Mrs. Frawley and her husband have my son was in need. So by helping to make the ways that Harrison students have helped masks, I hope to help support the larger community, specifically healthcare workers seniors. And for Harrison’s experienced and in any way possible dedicated IB Technology teacher, Mrs. Diane and pay forward the Frawley, the way she has given back is direct- good that was given ly linked to her profession and the skills she to me.” has developed as a teacher in Harrison High In the middle School. of this public health Mrs. Frawley’s daughter is a social stud- crisis, the actions ies teacher at The Windward School. Her of people like Mrs. daughter is someone who “wants to change Frawley are things the world,” in the words of Mrs. Frawley. When in which the whole COVID-19 started ravaging the areas around Husky communi- us, her daughter thought about how she could ty can find school Heroes wear Harrison Shields. Here is one of our have the most positive impact on her own Printing Up What's Needed. Mrs. Diane Frawley and her husband Ken pride. Every step of HHS face shields in action at White Plains Hospital, community— her idea was to use Windward’s pose by Harrison's 3D printers, They have been hard at work supplying this process of mak- protecting one of the brave healthcare heroes work- 3D printers to start making face shields and nearby healthcare workers with much needed face shields. ing PPEs, from Mrs. ing hard during this pandemic. Courtesy of Mrs. Diane Frawley Courtesy of Kate O'Brien In News... In Arts... Inside... At-home Dirty AP tests Rotten To Gap or Not to Gap........Page 5 have Scoundrels! Reimagining High School..Page 7 several Senior Memories.........Page 10-11 problems Page 13 90-Second Interviews......Page 17 Page 5 June 2020 2 Husky Herald Protestors Outraged By Racially Unjust Death of George Floyd Emily Scremin, Zachary Pearson, Alexis Cameron, and Michael Tolve Staff Writers On May 28, cheering protes- in her family’s Mississip- get everything the system tors broke into a Minneapolis police pi grocery store. Till was has put us through, the precinct station after the department kidnapped, tortured, and violence that WE were abandoned it, setting it on fire and lynched by white men. victims of during the Civil igniting fireworks as several days In Florida in 2012, Rights Movement, when of violent protests spread to cities 17-year old Trayvon Mar- Black families moved into across the U.S. in outrage over the tin was shot and killed by white neighborhoods, death of George Floyd, an unarmed, George Zimmerman, a when Black children were handcuffed black man. self-appointed neighbor- beaten after attending George Floyd, a 46-year old hood watchman at the white schools, and the vi- African American man was stopped time. Yet Zimmerman was olence that we are victims in his car in the city’s south side acquitted of any charges. of today. Police brutality is on May 25 after police were called Protests first erupt- one of MANY examples about him trying to pay for something ed May 26, a day after of the disgusting things with a counterfeit bill. He was forcibly Floyd’s death. Minnesota we battle. We are hurting, removed from his car by the Minne- Governor Tim Walz ear- so though I do not agree apolis police and handcuffed on the lier on May 28 activated with violence, what did the ground. A bystander’s video went the National Guard at world expect? Black Lives viral, capturing one officer kneeling the Minneapolis mayor’s Matter!” on the neck of George Floyd, who request, but no National “This is truly a was screaming, “I can’t breathe” as Guard were seen during shame; tragic events like he was pinned to the ground, while protests in Minneapolis these make the perception an increasingly distraught crowd of and St. Paul. of every police officer in onlookers pleaded with the officer to President Trump the country terrible,” said move his knee. Floyd eventually lost took to Twitter on May Olivia Sayegh. “There are consciousness and was later pro- 29 in a stark response to “bad” police officers, just nounced dead. the riots, saying: “These like there are “bad” teach- The next day, Minneapolis May- THUGS are dishonoring ers, doctors, and engi- or Jacob Frey announced that the the memory of George neers. The officers should officer, Derek Chauvin, along with Floyd, and I won’t let that have acted differently. I the other officers (identified later as happen. Just spoke to hope there is justice for officers Thomas Lane, Tou Thao, Governor Tim Walz and George Floyd. This tru- and J. Alexander Kueng) had been told him that the Military ly puts a stain on officers terminated. Still, the incident caused is with him all the way. around the country.” mass outrage and riots, as well as a Any difficulty and we will Celebrities weighed F.B.I civil rights investigation. assume control but, when in too.