Late last year, we were contacted by a local teacher, Annah Riedel, at Exploris Elementary School. She met us at SciREN and wanted to pair up to teach her fourth graders a bit about 3D printing and introduce them to the Engineering Design Process. First, they came to us out at the vet school and we showed them three different approaches to 3D printing. Then, they were each given a challenge to be solved by designing something and drafting a prototype to 3D print in TinkerCad. We met with them a few times to give design feedback, then picked a winner from each group to actually print.
Everyone had a great time (at least we hope) and everyone learned a lot, especially us! Thanks so much Annah for reaching out. You can read her blog post about it here.
