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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...

Taken from WITN The CAD/3D printing work of several students at St. Peter Catholic School in Greenville is on display this month at East Carolina University. Some of the students visited WITN News at Sunrise on Tuesday. Art Teacher John Bell says students have been working in class and in after-school sessions to create items using CAD, or computer-aided design software, then printing them with the school's 3D printer. The work done in art class is a compliment to other parts of the students' curriculum. For instance, the printing of hands in 3D serves as an engineering component to the...

Taken from EdTech by Meg Conlan When the astronauts of the future require a replacement part, 3D printers will step in to fill the void. And thanks to the Star Trek™ Replicator Challenge, the students of today will understand that process first-hand. The Future Engineers challenge — named after a piece of Starfleet technology that generates matter at the push of a button — asks K-12 students to design 3D printable objects that will allow deep-space travelers of the year 2050 to eat nutritious meals during their journeys. With the May 1 contest deadline looming, entrants are giving her all she’s...

Taken From The Kansas City Star By Beth Lipoff Printing a human liver on a 3-D printer and using a robot to plant probiotic bamboo for pandas may sound futuristic, but for two groups of local students, both are goals for the future. Two Kansas groups — a team of fifth-graders from Rosehill Elementary School in Lenexa in Shawnee Mission and a team of third-graders from Cedar Hills Elementary in Overland Park in the Blue Valley district — have received an honorable mention in the national ExploraVision competition for projects based on these ideas. The competition, sponsored by Toshiba and...