Tennessee students build a new hand for classmate

Starting at a new school this year, 15-year-old Sergio Peralta had all the typical teenage reasons to be nervous.

He was also trying to keep a secret: a hand that was not fully formed.

"In the first days of school, I honestly felt like hiding my hand," he told CBS News, the BBC's US partner. "Like nobody would ever find out."

Instead, a teacher at his Tennessee high school learnt his secret and assigned his engineering class a project: build Sergio a new hand.

"You're supposed to be engineering, coming up with new ideas, solving issues," Henderson High School student Leslie Jaramillo told WTVF, a local CBS affiliate. "And just making things better than how they used to be."

Sergio, born with a right hand that did not fully form, had become used to it. He learnt to write with his left hand and said he could get by with nearly everything else, figuring out techniques for basic tasks like carrying his water bottle from class to class.

The suggestion from his classmates at his Nashville area school came as a happy surprise.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64418260

The kids in TN are a lot better than most of the "adults".