April 22, 2020 // SAMC
As a teenager during the COVID-19 pandemic, with school online and activities cancelled, finding the motivation to be productive can be a serious challenge. For Samuel Knudson, a fourteen-year-old eighth grader from Easton, California, motivation comes in the form of a 3D printer and a desire to make a difference.
Samuel spent much of the last year using his 3D printer to create figurines for tabletop gaming, dice, and even a full set of chess pieces, but when his father, Adam Knudson, came to him with photographs of 3D printed mask clips that other people were printing across the country, he quickly looked up the design code and got to work printing his first batch of clips.