high school

How 3D Printing Drives New York High School’s Robotics Club

The Birch Wathen Lenox School’s FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team, Birch Bots, eagerly participates in a New York City Regional Competition every year with a brand-new robot. For those unfamiliar,…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — April 11, 2015

This week’s 3D printing stories we didn’t cover run the gamut from quite serious to whimsical, beginning with serious news of an MIT student’s use of 3D printing to document…

A PowerPoint 3D Printer: Missouri Teacher is Building a Unique $20 3D Printer with His Students

When it comes to 3D printing within the classroom environment, there are some teachers who welcome it with open arms, while there are others who are deathly afraid of the…

Ladybridge High School is Doing It Right — 15-Year-Old Students Create Unbelievable 3D Printed Lamps

3D printing is making an impact on our lives, whether we realize it or not. Many of the products we buy today originated from 3D printed prototypes which allowed their…

HOUSTEX 2015 Student Summit Offers 3D Printed Wind Turbine Challenge for Houston Area High Schoolers

Because Texas is indeed the ‘Heart of Manufacturing,’ that is the theme for this year’s HOUSTEX Student Summit, sponsored by SME, which endeavors to introduce area high school students to the merits…

High School Student Designs and 3D Prints Extremely Detailed 2 Foot Tall Robotic Sculpture

We have seen 3D printing and robotics go hand in hand quite a bit lately. Whether it is the 3D printing of robotic parts, or robots that do the actual…

High School Students at NuVu Studio Use 3D Design & Printing to “Hack Wheelchairs for Urbanity”

Traditional wheelchairs are wonderful for people who need them, providing independence to those who have limits to their personal mobility for any of a number of reasons. Still, they do…

Town History in 3D: Vermont Students 3D Print Historical Buildings for High School Challenge

3D printing has raised the bar for many processes — and that includes the world of competition — especially for students. Coordinating a truly comprehensive statewide high school competition, several…

3D Printed CO2 Race Car Project Pits Students Against One Another at Illinois High School

Over the past year, we have seen 3D printing start making its way into classrooms. We have seen high schools, colleges and universities around the world adopt 3D printing as…