Next, Nkalango went to the orthopedics and prosthetics department, where prosthetists Lance Harms, Luis Velsaquez, and Jennifer Stieber fitted a gauze jacket over her torso, and used strips of cloth soaked in plaster of Paris to fashion a mold of her shoulder. It hardened in minutes, and Stieber used round-tipped scissors to carefully cut off the gauze jacket. Then Velsaquez trimmed the edges around the shoulder mold, which will be used to build her arm.