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This week at Profound 3D we've been making different prints after the craziness of the holiday weekend has passed. Our favorite one around the office is this beauty made with Polymaker PolyPlus™ PLA 3D Printing Filament True Orange 1.75mm. It was made on the Afinia H800 3D Printer.     The settings used to create it are below.

Taken from Chicago Tribune Nancy Coltun  Fifth-graders, poised and prepared, took over the teaching duties this week to explain the intimidating new world of social media and apps to Highland's elementary teachers. Beginning with the Twitter realm of the hashtag -- #iTransform #STOH #Highland4Tomorrow -- the three-hour EdTech Conference iTransform 2016 brought staff from Johnston, Merkley and Southridge elementary schools to Warren Elementary School on Wednesday for a jam-packed 90 minutes of digital discovery. The session offered hands-on opportunities to use the tools teachers will have available in their own classrooms in August when all elementary schools will begin one-to-one...

Taken from Education Week NEW YORK (AP) — The budding entrepreneurs wore glasses made of wooden tongue depressors to pitch their idea for glasses with a chip that lets you find them from your phone. "And they'll have windshield wipers, so when they're dirty or get water on them, you can wipe it up," said Azariah Drungo, a fifth-grader at Public School 307 in Brooklyn. Azariah and her classmates spent the past week developing product ideas and as part of a mentorship program that sends engineers and designers from New York City's burgeoning tech industry into high-poverty public schools. Backers...

Taken from Machine Design John Hornick Kids Are the Key Kids are just starting to use simple, inexpensive, consumer-grade 3D printers today. They are the early adopters, and machines that are good enough today will become better, faster, and capable of making more things. Kids will not only grow up with the technology, the technology will grow up with the kids because they will contribute to its advancement. Today’s young innovators will 3D print our future. To some extent, they will learn by using their own machines, teaching themselves, and improving the machines as they go. But they will also...

Taken from The Daily Item By Jerri Brouse LEWISBURG — Thanks to the generosity of the Lewisburg Area High School Alumni Association and the Class of 1958, students in Mark Berger’s technology classes have had the unique opportunity to take learning to a new level this semester. The Alumni Association recently used proceeds from its November Election Day spaghetti dinner and private donations collected from the Class of 1958 to purchase a 3D printer for the high school. The idea to purchase the printer purchase came from Bob Degling, a member of the Class of 1958. According to Berger, four...