Staff members and families at The Walker School in Cobb County are joining the national effort to provide healthcare workers with personal protective equipment needed to treat patients with COVID-19.
Faculty and family members are using the school’s 3D printers and supplies to create frames for shields and sewing masks for healthcare workers treating people affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
“So many Walker parents are on the front lines battling COVID-19, and our students and faculty want to support these heroes,” said Head of School Jack Hall. “Like everyone, we want to help in any way possible.”
The Walker School has been closed since March 13 due to the pandemic.
Walker parent Toby Thornton said his family has printed more than 500 frames and shipped 300 shields. The project is a family affair, with wife Cris running the laser cutters, daughter Elena, a 2018 Walker graduate, managing the printers and making deliveries, and daughter Sara, a Walker freshman, helping prepare the printed frames.
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Christine Foster, and her sons, Walker fifth-grader Jack and fourth-grader Henry, are sewing masks to send to Dr. Holly Martin, a Walker Lower School science teacher who is using the school’s 3D printer to print the frames that hold the shields in place.
Credit: The Walker School
Credit: The Walker School
The Walker School said the shields and masks, as well as gloves, have been distributed to Grady’s Marcus Trauma Center, Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton, Northside Hospital Forsyth, Emory Midtown, senior care centers, urgent care centers, a dentist’s office and facilities in states such as California, New York and Virginia.
Walker Upper School science teacher Dr. Brian Carter said the school also donated 3,000 gloves and several N95 masks to Cobb County Fire Station No. 5 to distribute to hospitals. The gloves were originally going to be used for Middle and Upper School science classes and the masks were part of the school’s emergency kits.
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