Past projects 2
3-D Printing Our Future!
Funded Feb 4, 2014Thank you for the awesome support and gift of the 3-d Printer for our school. When they heard we were receiving a 3-d Printer, the students eyes lit up and they became super excited to know that they were going to be receiving a piece of equipment that no one in their district has ever seen before!
When the printer did arrive, there was a big crowd of students hovering and watching as I had some of our girls open it up and unpackage the materials. As they were unpackaging it, their mouths dropped, as I was describing and showing the capabilities of the 3-d Printer to them. When we got the printer setup, I had them run calibration and run one of the "Test" Prints that came pre-loaded. During these moments there was a lot of hushed whispering and shock as they watched with amazement, as the printer moved and started to create shapes from nothing.
We have been fortunate enough to use the 3-d Printer as well for our FIRST Robotics Team. We were able to make a Part for our robot that was necessary to compete as well! During the course, I had some students ask if they could design a Hub for a Car Window Motor that we were planning on using in the robot. I gave them the green light, and they successfully completed it. The students expressed many amounts of Joy, as we were able to use our robot fully at the competition. As a token, I told the students to bring it to the competition as well, because we should show them how it was made.
While at the competition there were HUNDREDS of people that stopped by and watched, as a few of our students explained how the 3-d Printer works, what it makes, and where we received it. Which is all thanks to you! Again many many thanks for the Amazing 3-d printer!”
With gratitude,
Mr. Robertson
This classroom project was brought to life by Autodesk - MakerBot and 4 other donors.The Little Town That Could!
Funded Jun 5, 2013Thank you all very much for the wonderful gift that you have provided our team. It has been truly a great blessing to have, use, and work with as we prepare for the coming season. The students have been truly thrilled to be able to see a new laptop, run programs they have not traditionally been able to before, and also work with a laptop that is responsive to our programming and commands.
So far we have installed our programs necessary to run the Robotics control codes, including programs called LabView, Netbeans, and also Windriver. With these three programs alone we will be able to program in three formats, Labview's GUI based programming, Java, and C++. We will be installing in the next few weeks, a Drafting and 3d Modeling program called PTC, that will allow us to "assemble" and also design a fully functional robot conceptually on the computer. We have used the laptop at a recent "Celebrate Student Success" presentation. At that presentation we created a Google presentation highlighting our team's achievements and work from last year's competition, and answered questions from students, parents, and community members.
Again I can not thank you enough for the incredible gift you have bestowed upon us. This laptop will travel with us to a variety of locations, including throughout the school for during our build season and school work, but also with us to our competitions for operating our robot, running codes and programming. This will be our gateway to many more different and grand opportunities. Thank you once again!”
With gratitude,
Mr. Robertson