3D Printed Hair Tie Stand

Above: Design shown from above

Challenge: Student wanted to create a hair tie stand to store hair ties that were all over the place. The design needed to be flexible and personalised.
Background: Coming back from the school holidays a Y5 student approached me and stated that they had an original design which they had thought of during the break, to solve a practical problem. This was the students first original design meeting the expected classroom brief.
Level of Difficulty: Low - the design was straightforward and featured basic designs from the main Tinkercad interface that were then adjusted to complete the design. The original design was not personalised, so the name was added last to reflect the student and increase the difficulty

slightly. Additional features could have been added to the base (such as multiple words or extra shapes).
Timeframe: This design was an six hour version, with an 8mm nozzle as stated. Obviously the size of the cone was variable and could be redesigned depending on the choices of the students and the stand wouuld still function.
Size: 11cm long, 9cm wide, a width of the base plate of 5mm and a height of the cone section of the design of 9cm from the base plate.
What we would do differently: Very little, the design was original, which fits the general brief. It addressed a problem or an issue that was relevant to a student and was successfully solved by a print.
Next steps for the students: The student was able to idependenlty complete the process without any teacher interaction. With the next step would be something more complicated, another original design that would potentially include interlocking pieces or working/moving parts.