You'd be amazedat what university and college students can achieve. Even Tony Stark is amazed-and so is Robert Downey, Jr., the actor known as Tony Stark and "Iron Man." That's how DuPont Nutrition & Health, New Century, Kan., introduced its 12th annual Knowledge Awards this September at Prepared Foods' New Products Conference (NPC). DuPont Nutrition & Health Communications Leader Chad Coleman showed a Microsoft video of Robert Downey presenting a robotic arm to Alex Pring, a young Central Florida boy missing his right arm from just above his elbow. The story gets better. The new robotic arm was a free gift from Limbitless Solutions, a volunteer group started by Albert Manero, a University of Central Florida engineering PhD student. Manero and others use their engineering knowledge to make free bionic arms for kids.
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