News — 3D in classroom

From: NJTV News By Erin Delmore “In the bad old days, you had to buy these massive machines and do all this expensive stuff and now you just press print,” said Picatinny STEM Office Technology Manager Shahram Dabiri. It’s supply on demand. Picatinny Arsenal is putting the power of 3D printing in the hands of Montclair’s K-12 students, thanks to 36 printers bought by Montclair State University. The military research and manufacturing facility is stepping in to train the township’s teachers. “These are maker-bott replica desk top printers. They look rely complicated, they’re not. It’s basically a hot glue gun...

From Fortune.com by Andrew Zaleski Can putting 3D printers in schools lead to adoption in the consumer market? MakerBot plans to find out. When the State University of New York at New Paltz opened the first MakerBot Innovation Center in the U.S. in February 2014—complete with 30 MakerBot Replicators—it was heralded by the university and MakerBot as a major step forward. Here was an opportunity for SUNY students to learn the intricacies of digital design and fabrication, with some of the latest desktop 3D printing technology, which would effectively give them with the tools they needed to fit into a new...

From 3DPrint.com by Debra Thimmesch | Mar 9, 2016 Danish expat, Washington, D.C.-area resident, and maker Mathias Hansen put his many tech-related skills to work in the interest of making learning the alphabet more fun for young Montessori school students. Montessori schools are all about hands-on learning. Hansen, an accomplished software engineer at VideoBlocks, an online company that provides creative content–graphics, video, and audio–at affordable prices, recently fielded a question about how to revitalize an old hands-on alphabet set. Hansen recalled the initial engagement: “I got an interesting question from a Montessori school recently. They had this material that consisted of...

CHANHASSEN, MINN (PRWEB) JANUARY 28, 2016 Afinia will show their award-winning H-Series Desktop 3D printers and white-light 3D scanner at TCEA, booth 2057, February 3–5 in Austin, TX. In 2014, the H-Series (H480) won “Just Hit Print”, and in 2015, won “Reliable Performer” over 26 3D printers in Make: Magazine’s Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing. The Afinia H-Series is the only 3D printer series to win awards in Make’s 2013, 2014, and 2015 Ultimate Guides. The Afinia H800 3D Printer features Auto-Leveling Platform Calibration and Nozzle Height Detection and has a 10” x 8” x 8” (254 x 203 x...

Technology is one of the most important parts of our lives; this makes it very important that student should be guided to make use of technology in best of its way. Technology, when used to teach the students such that they get to make use of something they already learned theoretically, is a great idea. Read the full article on the Robo Lab website