Two local Houston schools making masks with 3d printers

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This is a local high school and a community college

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Houston Community College workers hope to make about 30,000 face shield a day with industrial 3-D printers and laser cutters.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo on Thursday signed a waiver to allow HCC to manufacture the shields, designating the work as “essential critical infrastructure.”

“This is a huge deal,” Hidalgo said. “They are working on a prototype right now. But that’s the kind of thing we’re granting a waiver. So, I’m very proud to have granted them the essential critical infrastructure status for them to be able to work toward producing those shields.”

State leaders this week urged schools and colleges to donate or manufacture whatever they could to help healthcare professionals in their fight to treat patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Officials in Harris and Chambers counties have raised alarms that their stocks of personal protective equipment for doctors and first responders are in short supply.

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