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Updates: Positive 91成人导航ans continue to serve and create

We have chronicled community outreach efforts and interesting stories involving 91成人导航 students, faculty, staff, alumni and donors during the first 11 weeks of Positively 91成人导航.

This week, we update the stories of several 91成人导航ans:

Felicia Ortiz
Felicia Ortiz, a 2018 dental hygiene graduate from 91成人导航鈥檚 Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, worked with her father Mike to create face shields from items purchased at Home Depot. They also bought a 3D printer to speed up operations.

What is new: 鈥淢y father and I were very close to meeting our goal of 400 face shields. However, I got called back to work the first week of June and my father started work the next week,鈥� Felicia Ortiz said. 鈥淲e were able to produce 315.

鈥淲e donated face shields to pediatric offices, medical offices, dental offices, EMT departments and a third batch to Safeway. I also was more than happy to provide a couple of my patients with face shields who live with immunocompromised family members.鈥�

Felicia and Mike Ortiz also designed and produced ear protection for health care professionals.

Kyra Christmas
The 91成人导航 water polo All-America had hoped to play for Canada in the 2020 Olympics. The COVID-19 pandemic caused postponement of the games in Japan until 2021. We wrote about Christmas鈥� unique training situation after Canadian officials shut down swimming pools. She worked with her father to build a swimming pool out of hay bales on their Alberta farm.

What is new? Christmas鈥� hay bale pool has become a media and social media sensation. At the time of her Positively 91成人导航 profile, her Instagram video had 1,125 views. That total has risen to 5,176. 

Media outlets all over Canada and some in the United States (notably USA Today) have featured Christmas and her unique pool. "It was a little disappointing at first but it just gives our team another year to train and get better together," Christmas told the Canadian Broadcasting Company. 鈥淪o I think in a way it was kind of a good thing."

David Chayka
Beginning in mid-March, the six 3D printers in the Citrus Heights home of David Chayka 鈥�17 PharmD, churned out many face shields and other equipment to help front-line health care workers and others. At one point, Chayka and his assistant鈥�11-year-old son Matthew鈥攈ad the printers working around the clock.

What is new? Chayka has received numerous requests recently for masks and shields for children. 
鈥淚 have a bunch of pre-printed masks and shields that still need to be cleaned and processed, allowing my 3D printers to rest for a little,鈥� he said. 鈥淧eople are requesting masks for their kids. They are designs like Darth Vader or Bane, so that their kids would be more apt to wear the masks in public.鈥�

He also has started working closely with dental offices.

鈥淭hey鈥檙e struggling with simple things like sanitizers, face shields and random little gadgets for their equipment,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 spent some time working on aerosol precautions, creating mouthpieces that work like a vacuum to suck up aerosols when manipulating the mouth cavity (explained in this video .

鈥淚t has been very busy, but I enjoy every minute of it. I get to practice doing what I love, and I get to help people at the same time,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 can鈥檛 ask for more.鈥�