education
CGTrader Hails the New Year with Two 3D Design Competitions: Valentine’s Day Gifts & Educational Models
The new year has arrived and Lithuania-based CGTrader is stealing the spotlight in 3D printing with two different competitions. The first has to do with the romance department, and they are putting the…
Pakistani Students Create 3D Printed Mobile Obstacle Avoidance Robots with Help from LearnOBots
From my talks with several CEOs of large 3D printing companies, one topic always comes up, one that many of these companies are very passionate about. That topic is 3D…
Introducing the 3D Printable Robotic BeetleBot by BQ
Have you ever longed to get back to those family evenings you experienced as a child when everyone would gather around as dad showed you how to assemble the necessary…
World’s Largest 3D Printing Fab Lab Opens in Haifa, Israel at MadaTech National Museum
Wouldn’t you love the chance to go to an easily accessible public technology laboratory with 3D printers, scanners, laser cutters, PC workstations, and staff eager to introduce all of the…
A 3D Printed Water Cooler for Raspberry Pi
The idea of a water cooler for Raspberry Pi brought to mind some sort of sweet summery drink complete with paper umbrellas and a pounding headache the first time I…
Integrating 3D Printing Education into a Curriculum for Girls in Africa
The Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) is a global not-for-profit created in 2000. The goal of its creation is to partner with low-income communities in the US as well as…
Leopoly Expands its Easy-to-Use 3D Creation Tools to Businesses and Schools at CES 2015
One of the first things that many owners of 3D printers tell me when I ask them if they have ever designed their own products for 3D printing, is that…
Capturing the ‘Moment’ – South Korean Firm Bursts onto the Scene with FFF 3D Printer
Moment debuted their 3D printer four months ago at the Asian Games 2014 in Incheon, South Korea, with a demonstration of printing custom items for athletes, and then went on to…
3D Heights Academy Launches Kickstarter Campaign For 3D Printing Online Training Academy
In talking with a friend lately whose kids are a couple of science whiz kids, she mentioned to me that they had become interested in 3D printing and before purchasing…
Teacher 3D Prints 50 Mini Catapults for Students as Christmas Gift & Math Lesson-in-One
Recently, we published an article about the importance of introducing 3D printing into schools all around the globe. It is a “technology of the future,” and without a doubt its…
Baiyun Winbo 3D Printing College Opens its Doors in China: Very first school of its kind
I’m a huge advocate of 3D printing in schools. I feel as though our future workforce will be better prepared for a future where additive manufacturing and 3D printing replaces…
Vocational Program Integrates 3D Printing to Educate Inmates at the Illinois Youth Center
The United States has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. A number of dedicated groups around the country are working hard to try and understand how to…
Why 3D Printing Needs to Take Off in Schools Around the World
When it comes to 3D printing, there are limitless ways in which the technology can be utilized. Businesses, hobbyists, and educational institutions are beginning to fully understand some of the…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — December 20
It’s the end of another week, which means it’s also time to catch our readers up on stories we didn’t cover last week. As always, last week’s 3D printing news…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week – Dec. 14th
In any emerging industry as transformative as 3D printing, the news just keeps rolling in and getting more exciting. Here at 3Dprint.com we do our best to keep our readers up to…
Build and Share Your Own 3D Printer with Open-Sourced ‘Bolt’ by Edu3d.Org
It’s often the case that we set out to inspire our kids, teach them, and encourage them to do things in the world, but when we give them the tools…
“TechShop Inside! — Powered by Fujitsu” — TechShop & Fujitsu Team to Launch a Mobile Makerspace
It’s incredible how much the education system has changed within the last decade or so. The resources available to many students today, grades K-12 and beyond, are creating a learning…
Stratasys’ New Free 3D Printing Curriculum Challenges Students to “Make Something that Moves Something”
When everyone started using computers to surf the Internet, there was a huge demand for computer classes in middle and high schools, community colleges and universities, and even senior centers. …
iMakr Education Sponsorship Program Offers FlashForge Dreamer 3D Printers to Schools at Half Price
It pays to be in school, and smart companies like iMakr know that it pays in the long run to cultivate the much younger crowd, who are the makers, inventors,…
Maker Racers: Cardboard Race Cars with 3D Printed Gears and Springs Aim to Educate Our Youth
When I was younger, my brother and I would constantly be competing against each other, whether it was in sports, education, video games, or just about anything else. One of…
Training Pediatric Surgeons Using 3D Printed Rib Cages
One of the difficulties of training new entrants into the medical field is the leap from text knowledge to hands on care. One of the ways to approach that transition…
Tinkerine Announces Tinkerine U Educational Pilot Program to Bring 3D Printing to Schools
Canada’s leading 3D printing company, Tinkerine Studios — which develops, manufactures, and distributes 3D printers — announced yesterday that they are launching a new educational program. The pilot program of Tinkerine U, running…
UNC at Chapel Hill Opens a Makerspace for Free, On-Campus 3D Printing
Some of the most remarkable and innovative achievements in 3D design and printing are happening in the academic environment, including collaborative efforts between academia and industry. While preserving the long-standing…
Mcor Sweetens Their Iris 3D Printer Package Deals for US Schools With Three Years of Unlimited Free Consumables
With the current global push to further STEM education and encourage students to explore new technology, Mcor is right on track. Mcor Technologies is sharing their 3D printing technology and…
