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With being out of school 13-year-old Charles Randolph has found a way help people and stay business.

“My mom has me on a super strict schedule. It’s not the best thing in the world but, two hours of homework every day, don’t enjoy that often, but you know” Randolph told WJLA 7. The teen thought of a way he could help others during the global health pandemic the human race is currently facing.

“I saw in the news that high-risk patients, people with existing diseases like heart problems and asthma, I thought this would help him, ” Randolph said. His great uncle Charles who lives in Atlanta needs a heart transplant. Knowing his uncle could use a mask he made one his parents’ 3D printer.

“My dad and mom signed me up for enrichment classes when I was younger,” he told the news station. The classes are where he learned about 3D technology where he went from making toys on the printer to creating a mask he found on a public domain website.

“You use a slicer which takes the product that you got off Thingiverse and it turns it into code that the 3D printer can read. This is the first real, useful thing that I’ve made,” Randolph said. It takes Randolph about 90 minutes and costs about one dollar to make one mask. Randolph is now making more masks researching where he can donate them. “It may not be 100 percent of a filtration system but it works,” he says. The masks aren’t suitable for the medical field but for his uncle, it may help until he’s able to get the transplant he needs.

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