TV Documentary Spotlights Students Partnership With Wounded Veterans

TV Documentary Spotlights Students Partnership With Wounded Veterans

Michigan Tech, GM Build Better Handcycles for Achilles Freedom Team

HOUGHTON, Mich., May 15, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It started out as a senior class project. It ended up as a passion for a team of engineering students and their unlikely partners--a group of wounded veterans.


Now a documentary has been made about the handcycles designed and built by Michigan Technological University mechanical engineering students for the Achilles Freedom Team athletes--wounded veterans who race in marathons.


The documentary is called The Wings of Angels, and it premieres this month on the American Heroes channel, a Discovery cable channel. Three showings are scheduled:


9 a.m. Saturday, May 17
9 a.m. Saturday, May 24
9 a.m. Saturday, May 31


The 50-minute documentary follows the lives of two wounded veterans who have become Achilles Freedom Team marathon handcyclists, and the teams of Michigan Tech students who designed, built, tested and refined handcycles for them.


For the full story, see http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2014/may/tv-documentary-portrays-partnership-college-students-wounded-veterans-corporate-america.html


To talk with one of the students who built the handcycle, contact Robert DeJonge, rdejonge@mtu.edu, 906-487-2142.

To contact the Achilles Freedom Team, email Janet Patton, jpattonachilles@hotmail.com.

This news release was issued on behalf of Newswise(TM). For more information, visit http://www.newswise.com.

Media contacts:
Jennifer Donovan
Director of News & Media Relations
jbdonova@mtu.edu
Phone: 906-487-4521
Mobile: 906-281-7530

SOURCE Michigan Technological University

Michigan Technological University


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