{"id":31040,"date":"2017-05-12T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=31040"},"modified":"2017-05-22T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T22:00:10","slug":"creating-community-3d-educators-construct3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/creating-community-3d-educators-construct3d","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Community of 3D Educators at Construct3D"},"content":{"rendered":"

These days 3D printing\u00a0and digital fabrication are key elements\u00a0of college and K-12 curricula. Students “learn through making” while developing\u00a0crucial 21st-century skills in hardware, software, and 3D design. These efforts are happening at hundreds of institutions around the United States. The thing is, there’s often just one\u00a0faculty or staff member leading the 3D effort, working alone. If you’re lucky, maybe you’re part of\u00a0a\u00a0small team.<\/p>\n

What happens when you put hundreds\u00a0of those leaders in the same place? We found out at the\u00a0Construct3D Conference<\/a>\u00a0at Duke University last weekend!<\/p>\n

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The mission of Construct3D is to bring together college and K-12 educators already active in 3D printing and give them a forum to share information and build a community. The conference, which grew out\u00a0of\u00a0Ultimaker’s\u00a0Pioneer Program<\/a>, was hosted this year by Duke University’s Innovation Co-Lab<\/a>. Sponsors included Autodesk, ShopBot, FormLabs, LulzBot, 3DPrinterOS, Adobe, and, of course, Shapeways. These companies brought workshops, talks, and exhibits\u00a0to Durham. And more than 250 educators from 150 different colleges, K-12 schools, libraries, and makerspaces showed up to share what we know and learn from our peers.<\/p>\n

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Ultimaker machines and prints \/\/ Photo: Aleph Objects, Inc.<\/p><\/div>\n

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LulzBot machines and prints \/\/ Photo: Aleph Objects, Inc.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Data-Driven Rhino\/Grasshopper Workshop with Andres Gonzalez \/\/ Photo: Josh Ajima<\/p><\/div>\n

Dale Dougherty, founder and CEO of Maker Media<\/a>, kicked off Construct3D at a collaborative makerspace at Duke called\u00a0The Foundry<\/a>\u00a0with a rousing call to action for making and sharing in education, and a vision for\u00a0an educational climate where students can explore their passions. The following morning, Skylar Tibbits, founder and co-director of MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab<\/a>, ran through\u00a0a dizzying array of future-forward ideas including 4D printing<\/a>, self-assembling structures, and auxetic materials<\/a>. Lunchtime that day included Q&A sessions with Marius Kintel, lead developer of OpenSCAD<\/a>, and Shapeways design evangelist Lauren Slowik, who\u00a0announced the upcoming public 3D design curriculum that will grow out of her current\u00a0New York Public Library course<\/a>.\u00a0The final day\u00a0of the conference included a\u00a0ShopBot<\/a> keynote; a materials panel that brought together representatives of\u00a0Proto-Pasta<\/a>, Structur3D<\/a>, Essentium<\/a>, and Reflow<\/a>;\u00a0and a top-secret peek\u00a0into the future of Tinkercad<\/a> and Fusion 360<\/a>\u00a0with Autodesk’s\u00a0Guillermo Melantoni.<\/p>\n

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Just one of the many things Tinkercad has in store for the future…<\/p><\/div>\n

But the heart of the conference was more than\u00a0100\u00a0presentations by educators. For most of us, Construct3D was the first time we could give a talk about 3D printing and know that the audience was already familiar with 3D printing and its educational opportunities. This enabled every talk and workshop to dive deep into techniques, pedagogy, design walkthroughs, and extensive Q&A sessions, with topics ranging from quadcopters<\/a> and multivariable calculus<\/a> to photogrammetry<\/a>, art history<\/a>, and social impact<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Over three days at Construct3D, we shared our successes (and failures!), got inspired with ideas to try out next fall, and most importantly, formed a community of educators that together will take 3D printing to the next level.<\/p>\n

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Didn’t get a chance to attend Construct3D this year? Stay tuned for the next one in Spring 2018 (location to be announced)!<\/p>\n

In the meantime, you can find\u00a0a complete rundown of talks and workshop\u00a0at the Construct3D 2017 schedule,<\/a>\u00a0follow the hashtags #Construct3D<\/a> and #Construct3D2017<\/a> on Twitter, and read recaps of each day of Construct3D at Karen Blumberg’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you were at Construct3D and want to share what you experienced there, tell us about it in the comments; we’d love to hear about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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