A STEM project homerun

Duchesne High School student designs

Prosthetic Batting Glove To Help People With Hand Disabilities Play Baseball

By Olivia Holler

A Duchesne High School student took a STEM project to a whole new level.

Sophomore Logan Murrish designed a mechanical prosthetic batting glove to help hand amputees or individuals missing a hand due to congenital anomaly to participate more fully in playing baseball.

According to Eric Seiffert, Marketing Director for Duchesne High School, the purpose of the project was to try to come up with something that would benefit someone in the community with the knowledge from their STEM class.

The prosthetic batting glove consists of human-like fingers driven by a small motor. It also has a flex sensor.

Murrish plays for a local baseball team in town, with his passion and love for baseball and STEM, he designed a prosthetic batting glove. Almost all of the pieces were designed and 3D printed by Murrish.

This annual STEM Scholars program assignment asks students to use STEM to help better the lives of others.

“Logan’s final project represents the best of what Duchesne and the STEM Scholars program stands for — experimentation, design, creativity, and service to others,” said Duchesne STEM teacher Glennis Ziegler.

After completing the project, Murrish did test it out on himself and it was strong enough to hold a bat and accomplish the task at hand. While completing this project, it made him consider the possibility of engineering as a career in the future.

“It’s a choice to make a little down the road,” he said. “But this project has made me consider studying engineering over business.”