Girl with 3D Printed Hand to Throw World Series First Pitch

Dodgers Astros matchup will start with a seven-year old's robotic hand

Hailey Dawson will throw out first
pitch this Saturday to start 2017
World Series photo Inverse

3D hand developed by engineers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

From Inverse Engineers at UNLV use a 3D printer to create the prosthetic, a process that has to be done repeatedly as the Las Vegas girl continues to grow. They made her first one three years ago, when she was four. According to a fundraising page the engineering department has set up, the printer machinery costs about $60,000 and each hand costs $5,000. The school says it aims to expand its work with prosthetics to help more children in the area.

Dawson is no newcomer to first pitches, having previously thrown them at Major League Baseball games for the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals. And because pitching at the World Series isn’t enough, Dawson aims higher: She wants to throw the first pitch at every one of the 30 MLB ballparks. Hailey suffers from Poland disease.