3D Printing Ides Bucket!

Recently on Twitter there was a discussion about ideas to enthuse students for 3D Printing - as a way to encourage amazing designs but also ways to look at getting students to have the 'wow' factor.

We are very fortunate to have a wide range of projects that have occurred over the last ten years, which are of course detailed on this blog.   When we have projects that we find innovative or interesting one of the things that we like to do is to create an additional print and add it to the bank that we are working with.

We have a tub in the classroom with a range of examples, and we let students explore these.   They are all robust, and not all of them have printed successfully however we have used them to create a discussion point with the students about design.

In a similar manner while the tub has the long term projects in the current projects or project that we are presently working on, which we want to be more accessible with the students - contained in this chest.

The chest is the laser cutter treasure box that was created using our school laser cutter.   The details of this project can be found here.

One of the things that we point to is the robust nature of the 3D Prints.   The earliest prints date back nearly ten years and are still in a workable state, we have had hundreds of students handle and maintain these prints