CLEVELAND — A group of students in Ohio are using robotics knowledge to build prosthetics using 3-D printing for children locally and in Ecuador. 

Yariselle Andujar is one of the students who is part of the initiative.

“We are making prosthetics for children not only here in Cleveland, but also around the world," seh said. "We will be traveling to Ecuador in just about two days.” 

The students used 3-D printers to create the prosthetics with help from the Great Lakes Science Center.

The students' mentor, JonDarr Bradshaw with the science center,  gave credit to the students for their hard work.

“They came up with the idea, they did the research, they did the background information, they even did a cost-benefit analysis to make sure that this was something that they could do,” Bradshaw said.

Gabriel Leonard, another of the three students going on the trip, is excited to help kids who need it.

“It’s amazing that we’ve been able to impact the lives of these children that are halfway across the world,” he said.

Andujar explained how they came up with the idea of helping with this initiative.

“We were in robotics and we found that we can use 3-D printers to make parts of our robot and so since we seen that like after our season ended we were like we want to continue doing things for the community and so we decided to take the skills that we learned with the 3-D printers and we decided to make prosthetics for children,” she said.

The students, along with Bradshaw, leave for Ecuador on Thursday.