April 2020

Hey engineers: These 4 COVID-19 volunteer projects need your skills

Hospitals need masks and ventilators. Small businesses need to change how they operate. If you’re versed in hardware engineering or web development, you can help.   Engineers at Apple recently helped develop an adjustable face shield to protect healthcare workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. By the end of this week, Apple …

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A new kind of PPE: Volunteers building masks based on snorkels

When Sara Remsen found out that Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was about to run out of masks, the Gloucester resident used her skills in tech design to help. Remsen, who sits as the vice president of Vuforia Product Experience at a computer software company, and about 200 others in various fields are volunteering for the non-profit MasksOn. …

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Minuteman High School students, superintendent create masks at home for medical workers

Several members of the Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical High School community are doing their part to fight COVID-19 — from creating facemasks to helping a local hospital expand its capacity to care for coronavirus patients. “All of us are making sacrifices right now, but no one is sacrificing more than the medical providers and first …

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20,000 masks arrive at our MasksOn.org facilities

We’re thrilled to announce that the first major shipment of 20,000 Head brand snorkel masks has arrived at our production facilities near Boston, MA. Our volunteers are carefully inspecting the product, while our engineering team is hard at work producing adapters. Next, MasksOn.org volunteers will assemble prototypes and put them through a battery of safety, …

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