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Take Your Child to Work Day - USAMMDA's "You Can Build It"
Take Your Child to Work Day - USAMMDA's "You Can Build It" challenge.
(Photos courtesy of Erin Bolling, marketing assistant at USAMMDA.)
Children and parents step up to the challenge to build medical prototypes at the Take Your Child to Work Day "You Can Build It" session July 20 at Fort Detrick.
The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity sponsored a medical materiel prototype challenge session at the National Cancer Institute at Frederick and Fort Detrick’s “Take Your Child to Work Day” Jul. 20.. This is the third year USAMMDA has sponsored the “You Can Build It” session. “You Can Build It” is a challenge reflecting Medical Support Systems Project Management Office’s Medical Prototype Development Laboratory.. The children are challenged to act as engineers in the MPDL and develop prototypes of medical support equipment that will aid the Warriors in the field or help to develop evacuation methods or provide treatment shelters for Wounded Warriors.. During the “You Can Build It” session, the children are provided with basic craft materials, representing raw materials used in the prototype lab. From those materials, the children are asked to use their imaginations and build prototypes.. The 2011 “You Can Build It” session was run by Erin Bolling, marketing assistant at USAMMDA, Chelsea Bauckman, marketing manager at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, and Jacob Madock, a second year teenage volunteer and son of USAMMDA Force Health Protection product manager, Christa Madock.
Last Modified Date: 12/05/2017