3D Printed Student Business Project Containers

Container and lid before rafting removed

Challenge: For student to create and print a unique personalised container that was suitable for the holding or storage of liquid (conditioner).
Background:   All of our students have a significant showcase coming up.  As part of this the students in the classroom next door are producing a range of products that are unique which they create which they would like to brand.  3D Printing allows them to engineer and design their own products (using Tinkercad) and then create them.  The students in this case are nine and ten year old students.

Two lids, reprint on the right

Level of Difficulty: Medium.  The students were designing for the first time and were able to have students assist the process who had 3D Printing experience.   There had to be a re-print of the lid as, as the drop down aspect of the first print did not work.  It did fit however the fit was extremely tight and wouldn't have been easily removed.  The student was made aware of this issue and created a second lid, which was a seperate print, the internal aspect of which fitted much better for the purpose of the print.  
Timefame: Ten hours for both the base and the lid in this case.  The second reprint of the lid, when it was just produced on its own took two hours.
Size: Ten centimetres for the height of the container, 6cm across.
What we would do differently: Very little.  The students concerned meet the brief that they had created and were excited with the results.   It was a successful print, allowed for a degree of individualism and created a unique print for the student.  The student had not had significant previous experience using Tinkercad but was able to confidently produce the print.  (The teacher had to remove the rafting using pliers on this occassion).