We have been looking at creating interests for our students for
Market Day 2025. We are trying to encourage our students by further developing the examples as they progress. Something similar like the addition of basic fairy lights to our Minecraft themed nightlight has had the students thinking about colour, design and composition.
As we have mentioned previously the example shown left is chiefly generated by students using files located from 3D Printing sharing sites such as Thingiverse.
You can read additional information about the print here.
Generally as a rule we try to encourage our students to look at using commercial grade prints as inspiration rather than simply printing them out. Our students are constantly sharing examples and prints from online, many of which have been purchased from online retailers. We recently had to problem solve for a student who had purchased a small dragon in an egg online, where the egg itself had snapped at the join. While the student was wanting to replace the original we also saw an opportunity to use a small scale, detailed dragon as a point of conversation.
As the print was small measuring 20mm across and being 35mm high it takes just over thirty minutes to print. By printing multiple copies we encouraged conversations about games that we could play - such as noughts and crosses. We have had students construct entire games
like this for our previous market days.
Phone stands are another item that we are currently investigating. It is something that fits the key criteria for our market day -
innovation and personalisation.
Our students are able to master a design like this independently with ease, the base design has been shown to our students as an example from a past project left.
We see these as starting points for our students and projects for them to work on to develop their ideas and skills moving forward.
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