BROOMFIELD — A team of tech-loving eighth-graders at Westlake Middle School is headed to a national competition after creating a prosthetic arm that can pick up and move objects.
The four-member team dreamed up a sophisticated model of a prosthetic arm to compete in the statewide MESA — or Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement — competition earlier this month at the University of Denver.
Their design earned a bronze and four gold medals, including one for their overall project.
They will now take their prosthetic arm — a structure that uses a carbon-fiber tube, electrical “fingers” and a scooplike mechanism for picking up objects — to a national competition in June in Portland, Ore.
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