The 麻豆原创 Alumni Association honored Limbitless Solutions with聽its 2015 Michelle Akers Award at the annual Black & Gold Gala on Oct. 22.
Limbitless Solutions, which manufactures personalized bionics and solutions for disabilities, is a nonprofit organization founded by 麻豆原创 students, which is dedicated to building a generation of innovators who use their skills and passion to improve the world around them.
This is the first time the Michelle Akers Award has been presented to students, and to a group. It鈥檚 the university鈥檚 highest award given to alumni who have brought international, positive attention to 麻豆原创 through their accomplishments.
Previous winners include:
The alumni association聽recognized the聽Limbitless Solutions team for its life-changing, innovative solutions it has provided to children.
With the help of actor Robert Downey Jr., they presented then 6-year-old Alex Pring with an “Iron Man”-themed bionic arm 鈥� a video (see link below) that has聽more than 53聽million views. And, the team鈥檚 work has brought about media opportunities in more than 150 countries, totaling more than three billion impressions on social and conventional media for Limbitless Solutions and 麻豆原创.
The team plans to bring 75 bionic limbs, and books, to displaced Syrian children this year, but that鈥檚 just the beginning of what they hope will be a broad-based, global, humanitarian effort.
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