3D Printed - Seven Year Olds Original Design

Challenge: Creation time to make something unique, make something that has a purpose and something that is useful.  This is a free design challenge time which has allowed our students to come up with concepts and ideas that are unique and original.   We have then moved the best of these designs through to the production stage.

Background: This student is seven years old, however she has consistently shown an excellent eye for details and has produced creative and consistent problem solving contents and originals.   A number of these prints have already featured on this blog such as the money box.   This student despite being very young is able to work independently, to create something with a purpose and get the elements of design correct and detailed.   In this instance there was a verbal communication with her to add some basic details (the cats face) however the entire process, design and details were unique and original to her.   

Level of Difficulty: Medium - however it does need to be pointed out that this student is seven years old.   She is currently the student from the ten or so students in the classroom who consistently and independently has balanced and creative designs, but most importantly designs that are serving a purpose - in this instance to be able to solve a problem or identify something to be fixed, which was the storage of her eraser.    The Tinkercad Interface served as the design, all of the key geometric shapes were sourced from here until the student was happy and then she stretched and manipulated them on her iPad to create the shape that she wanted.

Size: The cat measured 120mm long in length, was 50mm high from the feet to the top and was 45mm wide along the duration of the body of the object.   The student specifically wanted something to hold her erasers (although has since discovered that her memory stick would fit perfectly in there) 

Timeframe: Four Hours - there was some basic rafting on the bottom of the design between the feet however this was insignificant.     These dimensions/infill etc were right for the design.

What we would do differently/next steps for the students: The student was very happy with the overall design.  The design took a targeted period of time (around half an hour from start to finish).  The student liked the exaggerated features, including having the oversized ears.   The feet of the design were off balance as well again the student was more than happy with this.