Welcome!
I'm Matt Behning, I started up @ICUshieldsMN in April 2020. I'm an ICU nurse and found there's a desperate need for better face shields. I designed a model and tested it. My friends Chad Schwartz and Jennifer Swanson with her son Luke Swanson help co-lead, make frames, and organize. We 3D print the plastic frame for the face shield and your help is needed to clean up the prints after I separate them and sand them. We also need help putting the two straps on each frame and also with cutting the plastic sheets that complete the shield. Each shields takes about 5 hours to make. 3 hours for a 3D printer to print one frame and the other couple hours per shield is all the rest of the 10 steps to make a final shield.
I have a short article about the process here:
The steps to make an ICUshieldsMN Face Shield takes 5 Hours
The most important thing to know this is zero pressure and volunteering is fun and rewarding knowing your helping to protect health care workers, teachers, and other front line workers.
To start.
1.) Contact me on facebook personally or through the @ICUshieldsMN page
2.) I'll add you to our facebook messenger group chat where a couple times a day I update the other core volunteers like you on what is needing work. The work usually comes in a grocery bag of about 30 frames to work on.
3.) You can pick up a bag of 30 frames or sheets to work on at your convenience in contact-less pick up from my porch in Woodbury. No need to arrange ahead of time or anything. Each bag of work comes with instructions. However, navigate the page and find the few different types of work we need and familiarize with them if possible:
How to Clean up a Shield Frame
How to: Straps for ICUshieldsMN frames
How to: Cut out the shield clear sheets
How to: Prep Clear Sheets for shields
Thanks for your interest. If you have questions feel free to contact me on face book or through the page.
-Matt Behning
