A teacher at Bessborough School in Moncton is using her class’s 3D printer to teach her students the importance of providing comfort for health-care professionals working tirelessly amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Venessa Poirier-LeBlanc was inspired to make ear guards to ease the pain of masked health-care and essential workers, like her own mother who works as a senior care worker in a Moncton nursing home. “It’s not fun when it pulls on your ears all day long,” she said.
Poirier-LeBlanc said she had brought home her class’s 3D printer to learn how to use it properly after she got the idea that she could use it to give back to those fighting the pandemic on the front lines.