St. Stephen’s Episcopal School senior Jenna Rogge went to the school’s project idea and realization lab with an interest in prostheses and a desire to build a prosthetic hand.

According to a news release, Rogge spent about 90 hours designing, scaling, printing and assembling all the parts for a functional prosthetic hand that she named the Raptor. Once completed, she identified areas for improvement and immediately set about working on a new design. She was assisted by Educational Technology Coordinator Nicole Wortham, the release stated.

“The project idea and realization lab is a space for all members of the St. Stephen’s community to engage in design, innovation and creative services while also recognizing the individual, local and global hope and change that compassionate making can bring to society,” Wortham said in the release.

The lab is equipped with butcher block tables, storage and stability stools, as well as equipment like the Stereolithography 3-D printer that uses UV light to cure a liquid resin.

Wortham announced to the school community Nov. 1 that Rogge had earned her first “badge” for production and assembly of her second prosthetic limb, which she nicknamed the Cyborg Beast.

“Earning a production badge means that Jenna is now able to search through case files and identify a child in need of a prosthetic limb, 3-D print and assemble the hand, and then send it off to its new owner,” Wortham said. “She’s now approved to make prosthetic limbs for children in need across the world.”

Rogge is already on assembly changes to her original Raptor design and hopes to send that design off for a badge as well, Wortham added. She is also working on a prosthetic finger and looking for ways to design a full-arm replacement limb made out of flexible filament.