Ohio 5-year-old with prosthetic ‘Iron Man’ hand throws out first pitch for Columbus Clippers, An Ohio 5-year-old threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a minor league baseball game while wearing his brand new 3-D-printed "Iron Man" prosthetic hand.
Jack Carder, who was born with only a thumb and no fingers on his right hand, kicked off proceedings between the Columbus Clippers and Indianapolis Indians at Huntington Park on Tuesday night, WSYX reported.
The Columbus youngster held his right hand low and looked every inch the pro as he lobbed the ball to catcher Alex Lavisky.
He then proudly showed off his new hand to the cheering crowd.
The red and yellow hand itself was custom-made for the boy by 13 students at Siena College in Albany, N.Y.The non-profit group e-NABLE's Siena chapter spent around 80 hours designing and printing the hand after being contacted by Jack's mom Laura Carder.
It even comes with a glow-in-the-dark laser – mimicking the one used in the “Iron Man” films.
Joseph Fairley, who was involved in the project, said it cost less than $50 to create - and that they'd happily create a new hand for the youngster when he outgrew his current one.
"Being a 5-year-old boy, he grows pretty quickly. If something were to break on here in the next few weeks, we would just go ahead and build a new one," he told The Columbus Dispatch.
"It's so readily available and so cheap to use. It's free to them. We volunteer all of our time," he added.The students visited Carder at his daycare facility on Tuesday to present the hand to the excited boy in front of his friends and family.
Laura Carder said that his disability hadn't stopped her son from "doing anything" and that he was thrilled with the arrival of his new hand.
"Almost every day, he kept asking when his Iron Man hand would be here. He said he would throw the ball really, really fast when the Iron Man hand came," she told The Columbus Dispatch.
"He's absolutely ecstatic," she added.
The Columbus youngster held his right hand low and looked every inch the pro as he lobbed the ball to catcher Alex Lavisky.
He then proudly showed off his new hand to the cheering crowd.
The red and yellow hand itself was custom-made for the boy by 13 students at Siena College in Albany, N.Y.The non-profit group e-NABLE's Siena chapter spent around 80 hours designing and printing the hand after being contacted by Jack's mom Laura Carder.
It even comes with a glow-in-the-dark laser – mimicking the one used in the “Iron Man” films.
Joseph Fairley, who was involved in the project, said it cost less than $50 to create - and that they'd happily create a new hand for the youngster when he outgrew his current one.
"Being a 5-year-old boy, he grows pretty quickly. If something were to break on here in the next few weeks, we would just go ahead and build a new one," he told The Columbus Dispatch.
"It's so readily available and so cheap to use. It's free to them. We volunteer all of our time," he added.The students visited Carder at his daycare facility on Tuesday to present the hand to the excited boy in front of his friends and family.
Laura Carder said that his disability hadn't stopped her son from "doing anything" and that he was thrilled with the arrival of his new hand.
"Almost every day, he kept asking when his Iron Man hand would be here. He said he would throw the ball really, really fast when the Iron Man hand came," she told The Columbus Dispatch.
"He's absolutely ecstatic," she added.
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