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UTC grad making face shields with 3D printers for coronavirus fight

UTC grad­u­ate Chantz Yanagida is in charge of main­tain­ing and re­pair­ing the 62 3D print­ers be­ing used to make trans­par­ent face shields for health-care work­ers. The print­ers run sev­eral hours a day at Hamil­ton County’s STEM School at Chat­tanooga State Com­mu­nity Col­lege.
UTC grad­u­ate Chantz Yanagida is in charge of main­tain­ing and re­pair­ing the 62 3D print­ers be­ing used to make trans­par­ent face shields for health-care work­ers. The print­ers run sev­eral hours a day at Hamil­ton County’s STEM School at Chat­tanooga State Com­mu­nity Col­lege.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY ANGELA LEWIS FOS­TER

Sixty-two printers sit on tables arranged in an enormous rectangle. The wideopen space is filled with the zzzhh-zzzhh-zzhhh of the machines at work.

These aren’t your average printers, though...