The Miles for Manufacturing (M4M) 5K race set up by the International Manufacturing Trade Show (IMTS) Chicago, and GIE Media, publishers of industry magazines, has set up a fund to support STEAM education in schools and institutio [...]
Education
Mount Olive High School (MOHS) in New Jersey, welcomes 33 MakerBot 5th Generation Replicator 3D printers to their existing Marauder Innovation Learning Lab (MiLL). A resource of such a size is usually reserved for higher-education [...]
When Virginia Woolf wrote ‘a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction’ she was commenting on women’s access to education. At the time, women were scarce allowed into universities or academic libraries [...]
If the voices of my younger relatives are anything to go by, 3D printers are at the top of many children’s Christmas list this year. Some FFF 3D printers are certainly dropping in price to become comparative with the cost of a new [...]
Virginia Commonwealth University’s Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL) has been live since 2011. Originally as a means of recording American Indian artifacts for research and preservation, the project was started by Dr. Bernard K. M [...]
Vincent Scalfani, Science and Engineering Librarian at The University of Alabama, and Dr. Anthony Williams of the National Center of Computational Toxicology in the US, have developed a JMol searchable database of over 30,000 3D p [...]
The University of Nottingham is on its way to become an even more prominent figure in the world of British 3D printing. A ground-breaking ceremony has taken place to mark the start of work to build a pioneering Institute for Advan [...]
MakerBot have announced they will offer a 3D printing teaching program to over 800 school teachers in India. Vel Tech University, based in Chennai, and MakerBot developed the project in accordance with local governments. The progr [...]
The School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Georgia Institute of Technology (GATECH) is the latest venue to offer a MakerSpace and has opened a new Materials Innovation & Learning Lab (MILL). This is the second ti [...]
This weekend every Barnes & Noble is hosting a Mini MakerFaire along with a series of parallel activities where visitors will be able to try some cutting edge educational products. And if you happen to be in Seattle, the Publi [...]
