00:00The thing about Lego that inspired me so much was the possibilities.
00:08You can have four bricks
00:12and there's a million possibilities that you can assemble those bricks in a different way.
00:18That was very powerful in my head and I thought that I could do anything.
00:22When I was nine I built my first Lego prosthetic out of those bricks.
00:26My name is David Aguilar and I make prosthetic arms out of Lego bricks.
00:43These are some of my Lego prosthetics.
00:46MK1 let me do push-ups. It was my first prototype.
00:49The first one was very simple so I decided to make a more comfortable prosthetic next.
00:56The MK2 let me eat a sandwich.
01:00The five prosthetics that I've built have an evolution.
01:04I realized that there were many bricks that I could use like motors, batteries and control mechanisms
01:12for moving the entire prosthetic without me having to use a lot of force in my adult.
01:17This is so little and I have no muscle in here. It was very painful.
01:27I was born with Pollen Syndrome. It's a genetic disease.
01:32The right side of my body is underdeveloped.
01:36I realized that I was different when I came into the school for the first time.
01:41Everyone was looking at me in a funny way and asking their parents questions about my arm.
01:47I was very shy so it felt very weird.
01:51I was the easy target at school so I got bullied a few times
01:55and because of that I usually hid my arm under my shirt like this
02:00and people couldn't have anything to look at.
02:03Every day that I came back from school I spent a lot of time alone.
02:07I just stayed here in my room building Legos.
02:09It was my escaping tool from reality.
02:14I decided to make a mechanism that when I pushed my arm up
02:20the grapple on the end of the prosthetic would close.
02:23It was a very simple mechanism but it worked.
02:26For Carnival it was my costume.
02:30I was dressed as a kind of Terminator Iron Man hybrid.
02:35It was like turning myself into a superhero.
02:39I learned that I was different.
02:42We are all different. It's what makes us unique.
02:52When I built my fifth prosthetic arm, the MK5,
02:55I realized that this prosthetic could work for other people.
02:58The control system is very simple.
03:01The entire prosthetic can work with a single push of a button.
03:04I realized that I had something very important in my hands
03:07and that I needed to share it with people.
03:10Some people really need to hear something like this
03:14to overcome difficult times.
03:16It's what motivates me to keep going.
03:18You can build this version out of Lego bricks.
03:21The instructions are for free on my YouTube channel.
03:24The orthopedic prosthetic has more functions and comfort to it.
03:28But having this cheap alternative can be useful in your daily task.
03:32I learned how to live a normal life with my physical condition.
03:35So I don't really need prosthetics.
03:38Then why build five prosthetics?
03:41I was playing with my favorite toys,
03:44so I used them more as a tool to make people dream about their future,
03:49to make people more creative and to think out of the box.
03:54Building my prosthetics let me do very cool things.
03:58It's very powerful.
04:01David is a boy with great abilities,
04:06great talent, ingenious creativity.
04:11It has to be an exemplary story
04:14with which many children like him get inspired.
04:17Having put it into practice
04:20is something that you know would generate a great good.
04:24Along with my father, we developed a game
04:27that already existed, but we changed the rules.
04:30So instead of going against each other,
04:33you go together to fight a common enemy
04:36known as the monster of bullying.
04:39By creating this game,
04:42we believe that we'll help encourage children
04:45to stop bullying in their schools.
04:48They will realize that by working together
04:51they can solve any issue that they have
04:53instead of just making fun of others.
04:56And it's a very very powerful tool
04:59that they can use to learn about collaboration.
05:24Our dream would be for the Andorran educational system
05:28to play the international game of bullying together.
05:32They deserve a Guinness World Record for fighting bullying.
05:37Whether it's to help others mentally
05:40or to help others physically with a prosthetic,
05:42it's one thing that I would never stop doing.
05:44That was a way to share my message
05:46and to motivate people to make this world a better place.
05:53The Andorran Educational System
05:56The Andorran Educational System
05:59The Andorran Educational System
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