News — 3D in classroom

Taken from Centre Daily Times BY NOELLE ROSELLINI UNIVERSITY PARK In a corner of Penn State’s Pattee Library Maker Commons, a floor-to-ceiling glass enclosure houses 32 3-D printers stacked three-high on shelves. Day and night they pump out vibrant, plastic figures, from model rockets to Millennium Falcons. One door over in the Invention Studio, patrons use connectable, electronic pieces known as littleBits to link speakers, sensors and lights — among other technologies — to Lego blocks in order to develop prototypes of any concept they can think up. Combined, these spaces are the Maker Commons, a new addition to Penn...

Mid-Day Cafe: The 3D Printing Revolution Zortrax and Profound3D Monday, April 24th, Tim and Frank from Profound3D appeared on the Malvern MTC's Mid-Day Cafe to discuss printing with the Zortrax M-200 in the Education space. Check out the appearance below.

Taken from NJ.com By Emily Cummins RARITAN TWP.— Celebrating Teen Tech Week with their second Teen Tech Fair Thursday, Hunterdon Central Regional High School students got to play a Theremin, fly drones, make 3D printed bracelets and explored virtual reality with an Oculus. The high school's library, called the Instructional Media Center, was filled with stations for digital and technology based learning from students, teachers and local businesses.  "We have radio, TV, holograms, coding, Barnes and Noble, robotics and the Hunterdon Medical Center, and the goal is to really spark interest by showing the media center is more than a place...

Taken from Times of Malta Senior 2 students at Mater Boni Consilii St Joseph School, Paola, are being introduced to the basics of 3D designing, using 3D builder software provided to the school by Microsoft. During a series of workshops they are designing keychains using the software and then seeing them being printed. The students also had the opportunity to use the latest 3D printing apps on educational tablet computers provided to the school by Microsoft. Entire article here.

Taken From TCT Magazine by Laura Griffiths . Exciting things have been going on at CEL HQ this month as Liam Fox, MP of North Somerset and Andrew Barker from the James Dyson Foundation paid a visit to talk about how 3D printing is boosting engagement in STEM (Science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects in UK schools. We spoke to Chris Elsworthy, founder and inventor of the Robox to find out more. Hi Chris, tell us about what’s been going at CEL to help engage children in STEM subjects? We’ve done a number of things to try to get engineers and young...