News — 3d printing

Taken from Makerbot JESSICA ADAMS Are you ready to take on a learning journey that keeps students motivated and engaged from start to finish? The MakerBot Learning Team’s got a great collection of 3D printing lesson plans to help get you started. You’ll reinforce complex STEAM concepts with Thingiverse projects that encourage experimentation and innovation. You’ll give your students the freedom to explore, design, and create new things, all in one lesson. Many Thingiverse lesson plans come with step by step instructions, downloadable activity sheets, photos, and more. You’ll keep them engaged with interactive activities like building bridges, designing artifacts,...

Taken from Fairfax County Times By Angela Woolsey The students rushed across the classroom to gather around a trio of printers that looked like large black metal cubes with their insides hollowed out except for a raised platform in the middle. Excitement rippled up and down the line of 20 or so kids. It took only one glance to see that these weren’t ordinary printers, an assumption confirmed by the fact that they were printing what looked like a bracelet and a plastic chain instead of paper. “Does anyone know how 3D printers work?” a man asked the students. “They...

Taken from 3DPrint by Michelle Matisons Asia Pacific is a region of immense economic growth, and 3D printing is included as a significant technology fueling growth sectors in businesses, industries, and higher education. Recently, MakerBot announced the firstMakerBot Innovation Center in the Asia Pacific region, to be located at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). This Innovation Center will allow the campus to create a collaborative atmosphere teaching 3D printing entrepreneurship and innovation. PolyU is joining a growing number of leading universities across the globe that host MakerBot Innovation Centers to prepare students for the jobs of tomorrow. The increasingly popular MakerBot Innovation Centers are designed to help...

Taken from Southern Maryland Online SOLOMONS, Md. (June 6, 2016)—The Calvert Marine Museum (CMM) recently donated a 3D printer to the Science Department at Patuxent High School (PHS). This was made possible by the MakerBot Buy Two, Give One Promotion. It all began last fall when CMM received a Museum for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the purchase of Avizo 3D Software and a MakerBot Replicator Z-18 3D printer. This equipment allows the museum paleontology staff to digitally scan the fossil collection and to print images and create life-size plastic replicas. These can be...

Taken from 3DPrint. by Bridget Butler Millsaps While we hear so much today about turnkey 3D printing solutions that allow users with little experience to hop on board as soon as that much-awaited package is delivered to the door, it can be a letdown to realize, after the euphoria of unpacking that glorious, shining new beast of a machine, that yes you need to download software, do at least a little finagling, and prepare your models for the printer. That machine is sitting there ready to print what you tell it to in all its perfection, and yup, now you have...