Challenge: Independent activity - student driven.
Background: We encourage our students as much as possible to be creating, designing and making things in their own time and we try and print these out when the students are able to create something individualised and could potentially be used for another purpose.
This design features a 'flower' shape and has the initials of the student who created it placed in the centre of the design.
The design came out of our SVG challenge when the student found this image and then felt that it would be a piece that could have a number of practical functions as it had the space in-between the different petals. Therefore it could be used to tie or loop string or other material through it. The student has completed the print and is now 'road testing' the print to find out how it might be able to be used for different roles or tasks.
Resources Used to complete this project: iPad, Tinkercad App, Bambu P1S, Regular PLA
Level of Difficulty: Low - the most challenging aspect of the task was to locate an SVG file to complete the project. This was completed by an eight year old student from cohort one and was completed independently without teacher input.
Size: The print measures 80mm across, is 110 high and is 10mm wide. The petals are obviously not filled out which helped significantly reduce the printing time.
Cost/Price: The print uses 18g of PLA to complete the task. There was no 'rafting' or waste produced by the project. The price point for the print was $0.45c.
Timeframe: To complete the print the printer took six minutes to warm up and reach the printing settings and took thirty six minutes to complete the task for a combined total of forty two minutes.
What we would do differently/Next steps for the student: This project is one where the print is completed and the student is making sure that they can find out a purpose for it. Potentially the design will have multiple purposes depending on what the student decides.
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