SPOKANE, Wash. – Eighty students from Spokane high schools will put their prosthetic arm designs to the test as part of an annual team project and competition sponsored by Spokane MESA (Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement).
Gary Held’s father, an auto mechanic, wanted his son to attend college so he wouldn’t have to get his hands greasy and dirty, like him.Today, Held, armed with a degree in industrial education from Washington State University, spends his days plunging his hands into all types of electrical, mechanical and computerized construction and maintenance projects […]