GLASGOW, Ky. ( WBKO /Gray News) - A teacher created a 3-D printed prosthetic hand for a 4th-grade student.

Red Cross Elementary School STEAM teacher Scott Johnson designed, printed and assembled the prosthetic hand for Jackson Farmer.

“He’s got a skin tone rubber type hand that he can wear, but it doesn’t have a lot of functionality to it. He can’t actually grip things and whatnot,” Johnson said.

Johnson, who was the 2025 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, recognized the need nearly a year ago and secretly began designing the new hand.

“I made the initial file, and when the Back to School Bash came time this year, Jackson and his mom and his sister, they were here at school and I brought it out,” Johnson said. “I had printed it and had it in a Ziplock bag back here behind the STEAMlab tab

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