Face Shields for Heroes

What is Face Shields for Heroes?

During the initial peak of PPE shortage during March, 2020 in Tucson, AZ we created the Face Shields for Heroes project. Face Shields for Heroes is a project started by Tiffany Levison, former Northwest Medical Center PCT, and Marco Zacarias, Mechanical Engineer, in an effort to support medical professionals on the front line, fighting Covid-19. We took the initiative to help our local community by using our own time and resources to donate more than 200 Face Shields directly to those medical professionals in need from various local hospitals and clinics.

However, with contributions from our community we were able to donate more than 1,000 3D-Printed Face Shields!

This included a halt to our online 3D-Printing business by stopping new sales and sending delay notices, for those who accepted, of any pending orders during our first boom in online sales of a newly released product. In order to meet our initial goal of 200 Face Shields we volunteered our work late into the mornings and delivered all Face Shields. We were overwhelmed with the positive response and demand for more.

Although many in our community were donating Face Shields, we realized the the PPE shortage was long lasting. This is when we decided to invest in a 50W Laser Cutting and Engraving machine to help us speed up the production.

By the time we donated more than 400 3D-Printed Face Shields we were contacted by the Pima County Health Department to continue assisting in donating and help guide others who just started. We were happy to assist and help others to contribute.

We used medical grade IPA to clean all donated 3D-Printed Face Shields and packaged all donations into new carboard boxes. All donations came with Cleaning Instructions initially provided by us and then by the Pima County Health Department.

We are extremely proud to say that our 3D-Printed Face Shields well reached our local hospitals and clinics and went as far as New York City when they were needed the most. One of our core values is to Give Something Back, I believe and truly hope that we accomplished this value.

Thank you everyone who has contributed to our Face Shield for Heroes project! We couldn’t of gotten this far without you. Our last donation was on July 29, 2020.

Where did we donate 3D-Printed Face Shields?

• UMC Banner South

• UMC Banner Main

• Banner Urgent Care

• Northwest Medical Center

• Arizona Oncology

• Tucson Fire Department

• Sells Indian Hospital

• Many more…

Our Goal

To make a positive impact in our Tucson community by utilizing our available resources to provide 3D-Printed Face Shields to those in need.

Our Inspiration & Story

We LOVE 3D-Printing! On Friday, March 27th we were inspired by Joel Telling’s “3D Printing Face Shields and YOU CAN HELP TOO!” YouTube video. This is where the idea to start Face Shields For Heroes was initiated.

It’s amazing to witness how 3D Printing can make a difference for healthcare workers who are in the field with little to no PPE. From here, we went to Facebook and posted our intent to donate 200 3D Printed Face Shields. We have many friends and family working in the healthcare industry locally and were shocked to learn many of these facilities have very little to zero PPE!