Monklands teachers create protective masks for healthcare workers

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Inventive staff at Monklands schools have been lending their support to frontline healthcare workers – by using classroom technology to produce vital personal protective equipment.Technology and design teachers at both St Andrew’s High in Coatbridge and St Margaret’s High in Airdrie are using their departments’ laser cutters to make plastic face mask visors, which they are now distributing to care homes and hospitals.With huge demand across the whole country for the crucial protective equipment for health staff, various design templates have been made available free online; and dozens of schools have turned the technology more usually used for pupil projects like clocks and keyrings to good community use.Staff in the faculty of art and