UIUC Junior wins $30,000 award
Monday, March 8, 2010
Jonathan Naber, a junior at the UIUC, was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student Prize mid afternoon on March 3, 2010. Naber, guided by his passion for helping the less fortunate, developed an affordable prosthetic arm for people in underdeveloped countries using recycled materials. Naber worked with his team, Illini Prosthetics Team in putting together the arms and plans to travel to Guatemala in summer 2010 to test the prototype in a prosthetics clinic. Congratulations Jonathan!
