?Support creativity and invention at the junior and collegiate levels,? Ronning said. ?It gets (students) to go out and pursue ideas they think could work.? Ronning, 21, of Lincolnwood, credits a robust education and access to high-tech resources at Niles West High School for giving him ?a leg up? on the art of inventing. Now a junior studying mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ronning created a synthetic hand controlled by a series of pulleys that is replicable with 3D printing.
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