Funded Nov 22, 2013"Wow"! "Awesome"! Those were the responses of my students when the Makerbot 3D printer was delivered! Some of my students had been lucky enough to see one in use at the mall and couldn't believe we now had one in our classroom!
After printing some bracelets with our school name, for each student, the class began to imagine all the wonderful objects we could design and print. The Makerbot has become the focus of our free writing time, with students writing about designing and printing objects ranging from President Obama (" . . . because he is an important man.") to fantasy cars and even an eagle, our school mascot!
Albert Einstein once said: "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science." I believe that the Makerbot 3D printer allows my students to "raise new questions . . . . and regard old problems from a new angle". Thank you for providing my students with this incredible, life-long opportunity -- for once a child learns to envision life in a new way, he is forever changed.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Smart