Huntsville Fighting Covid 1 Favorite 

Practitioner: 

Date: 

Apr 7 2020

Location: 

Huntsville AL

Destin from the Youtube channel Smarter Every Day has started the "Hunstville Fighting Covid" website in order to mobilize and teach those who have 3D printers how to print Personal Protective Equipment to aid medical professionals fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. He has mobilized his own community in Hunstville with this, but the purpose of the website is to enable anyone with a 3D printer to contribute to the PPE supply as he has provided 3D printing files as well as a Youtube guide on how to print the equipment.

External sources: 

https://huntsvillefightingcovid.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbEj7M3aZIg
Posted by jassim on Apr 8 2020

Staff rating: 

4
I rated this project at a "4" because that was the contributor's educated guess on the the project's effectiveness. Why do you think it is/was not as effective? Describe what creative tactics Destin and Smarter Every Day used to inspire viewers to take action?

Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Provides (a useful service)Provides a useful social service.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear short-term goal. Short-term goals tend to be things like: create or repeal a law; get a President impeached; make the city administration repair a sidewalk. A campaign with a short-term goal needs a clear theory of change, complete with targets that can be cajoled or pressured into effecting the goal.
Its goal is to mobilize those with 3D printers and the supplies needed to be able to print Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for medical professionals.

Notes

The project has only been up for around a day and thus there is no information on if any PPEs have been 3D printed yet , but Destin's Youtube guide has already garnered 200,000 views and people have commented that they will be following this project's guides in order to help.