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Share your 3D printing lesson preparations | Thingiverse MakerEd Challenge 2.0
May
Desktop 3D printing is changing the way teachers teach 21st century skills. It enables students to solve “real” problems at any level and solve them in a clear and understandable way. However, integrating 3D printing into the classroom is a challenge for many teachers and finding or creating lessons can be quite challenging.
To motivate teachers who already have experience with 3D printing in schools to share their lesson preparations with interested parties, MakerBot is launching the Thingiverse #MakerEd Challenge 2.0. As the world’s largest 3D printing community, Thingiverse has become a popular destination for teachers. The growing number of available lesson preparations is making Thingiverse an increasingly exciting and important resource. Teachers can discover 3D printing lessons or teaching units including learning objectives, tasks, implementation suggestions, etc. or upload them themselves.
The Thingiverse MakerEd Challenge 2.0 follows the first and very successful MakerEd Project Challenge, which generated almost 800 entries; the most successful Thingiverse competition ever. Back then we asked you to turn your new or existing designs into projects. Now we would like to invite you to participate again, but with a few small changes: We would like to ask you to provide more information about the project. As a thank you, we are giving away better prizes – including two MakerBot Replicator 3D printers. We would also like to encourage you to include different software such as Spero, Ozobot or Solidworks in your projects to allow different approaches for the students.
A number of teachers will award the MakerBot Replicator 3D printer to the best project. The second Replicator will be randomly awarded to one of the submitted projects. Each project counts as an entry and you can make as many entries as you like.
The MakerEd Challenge 2.0. will run alongside the announced Summer STEAM Makeathons in five US cities, where teachers will learn, test and develop their own 3D printing lesson plans. These will also be uploaded to Thingiverse.
Don’t worry if you are not an official teacher. Many are able to create a MakerEd project. Every learning environment is unique – focus on the learning goal, process and outcomes of your project – and leave it to the teachers to customize it to their needs. Use the Empire State Building + MakerEd Project as a template. For detailed information visit the contest page on Thingiverse.
