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How STEM and 3D Printing can benefit regional communities

In 2014, Makers Empire partnered with the South Australian education department (DECD) to pilot 3D printing in primary schools. This pilot included 18 schools in and around Mt Gambier and was steered by Education Director, Adam Box, and his colleague, Emma Handford, Business and Partnerships Manager. Makers Empire recently talked with Emma and Adam about their experiences...

How North Adelaide Primary School used a gallery visit to inspire a 3D printing lesson

If you are a teacher looking for authentic learning involving art and 3D printing, here is a great example shared by North Adelaide Primary School, one of our Lighthouse Schools. John Western, a teacher at North Adelaide Primary School, explains his class project: "My grade 4 class at North Adelaide Primary School visited the Art Gallery...

Dalkeith Primary School Compares Makers Empire, Tinkercad and Thingiverse

Not sure which 3D printing software to use in your K-8 classroom? Learn from the experience of teachers at Dalkeith PS, who recently compared Makers Empire, TinkerCAD and Thingiverse with interesting results. At Makers Empire, we're grateful to have a strong community of schools who use our Learning Program, who tell us exactly what works...

How Maplewood Intermediate School students study the Space Station with 3D Printing

At Maplewood Intermediate School in New York, Grade 5 students are using Makers Empire 3D printing program for a project about the International Space Station. Lisa Hatton is an experienced teacher at Maplewood Intermediate School. She has been working with grade 5 students for six years and is always looking for new ways to engage her students. Recently,...

How St Stephens School is solving its community’s real world problems with 3D printing

St Stephens School's grade 6 students decided to tackle a real world problem using Makers Empire's 3D printing app and Learning Program to help their community. This kind of project based learning is not the same thing as doing 'projects': often, the emphasis is more on the processes that students follow and use. 3D design and printing...

How Living Word Shanghai students use 3D printing to design real-world solutions

Looking for new classroom ideas for 3D printing? Students at Living Word Shanghai identify real world problems around them to make the world a better place! Tammy Wang, Living World Shanghai School Grade 5 & 6 Program Director, explains, "We wanted the students to observe their world from their perspective and look for everyday problems society...

New case study shows Makers Empire 3D improves students’ spatial awareness

Two Australian teachers, Graham Gordon and Ruth Cowe, recently set out to investigate the impact of 3D printing on a group of 50 5-7th grade students at Sturt Street Community School. They used mental rotation, cross-section and projection tests that are commonly used to assess spatial ability and aptitude into STEM degrees. These tests are also used...

How Elanora State School students used Makers Empire to create stationery holders

We were delighted to receive photos of some fantastic stationery holders from class 6G, made in the Makers Empire Blocker module. Great idea! See these and more great designs here: https://www.makersempire.com/designs/search/stationary. Design your own by downloading Makers Empire. [su_spacer size="40"] Makers Empire: Better Learning By Design Makers Empire helps...

Australian & Iranian students collaborate in Makers Empire’s first global design exchange

Some exciting 3D designs recently made their way across the world when Year 5 students from Nima School, Tehran, Iran got together with some Year 6 students from St Michael's College in Adelaide, South Australia. If you would like to join this exciting program - sign up here! These 2 classes participated in Makers Empire's first...

Yeshivat He’Atid creating the future in New Jersey

New Jersey: At Yeshivat He'Atid, the 2nd and 3rd grade class of Teachers Robyn Adams and Sarah Koolyk explored spatial awareness through 3D design and 3D printing with Makers Empire. Yeshivat He’Atid is a yeshiva day school in Bergen County that is a leader in re-envisioning the classroom to incorporate 21st century educational approaches. The young and...

ISA International School Guangzhou Makers Empire first lighthouse school in Guangzhou

Nestled in Guangzhou's famous Redtory Arts complex is ISA International School Guangzhou. The school enjoys extended days from 8:30am to 5:00pm allowing students to enjoy a full enriched curriculum including sports, musical instruments and extra-curriculum. The school has also strengthened their unique creative and innovative environment in the Redtory Arts complex, by providing students the opportunity to utilize design...

Living Word Shanghai China’s first Makers Empire Lighthouse School

We're proud to announce that Living Word Shanghai is Makers Empire's first Lighthouse School in Shanghai, China. Living Word Shanghai is a leading international school in Shanghai - visiting the school is a bit like wandering through a leading private school in the United States. Now their students are keeping in step with their peers abroad by incorporating 3D...

Palisade Preparatory School students 3D design utensil for Garfield to eat Spaghetti

Design thinking is a great tool to arm students to tackle problems they will face in the world. At Palisade Preparatory School in Yonkers Public Schools District, three classes of 7th graders arrived at their computing class with instructional technology teacher Nasser Ibrahim ready to think creatively and generate solutions to whatever problems they were about to be faced...

Developing Spatial Awareness with Makers Empire

Makers Empire is the easiest way for students to get started with 3D printing. But there are many other learning outcomes that can be achieved when students explore and design in our 3D design environment. Among these learning benefits, research tells us that experiences working in 3D design environments help students develop spatial awareness. Here are...

Korean Gwangjin-gu Youth Center students learn 3D printing using Makers Empire

Korean students as young as 10 and 11 years old are already preparing for their future careers as they learn about 3D printing at the Gwangjin-gu Youth Center. Teacher Mi Suk Kim, assisted by Min Ho Seo of 3DITEMS presented a 3D printing lesson to students using the Makers Empire 3D Printing Learning Program. Students enjoyed using the...

Korean Kindergarten Kids learn 3D printing with Makers Empire

The wonderful world of 3D printing has opened up for six-year-old students at the Eureka Kindergarten in Korea. Students enjoyed a comprehensive 3D printing lesson using the Makers Empire 3D Printing Learning Program. Kindergarten teacher Yoo Jeong Kim and Gun Woo Lim of 3DITEMS demonstrated the different modules in the Makers Empire app, including the Shaper, Character, Doodler and...

Holland Patent Central School District in New York using Makers Empire

At Holland Patent High School in New York, physics teacher Elizabeth Vanderhoer is teaching her students about nanotubes (cylindrical carbon molecules). Specifically, students are studying how nanotubes can be used to make sporting helmets better. Fortuitously, Holland Patent School is a participant in a statewide design and 3D printing pilot in New York in conjunction with Makers Empire, the New York...

Dedicated American teachers explore 3D printing at the Erie-Catt Teacher Center

It is the day before the Memorial Day long weekend break in the United States, it is after school and a group of teachers have come from across the district to learn about Makers Empire 3D design and printing Learning Program. Where is this commitment, passion and dedication to teaching taking place? At Erie-Catt Teacher Center at the Grover L....

Newfield High School gathering STEAM with Makers Empire and 3D printing

Newfield High School in New York is one of a huge number of schools across America seeking to increase their students' participation in STEAM related subjects in fun and innovative ways. STEAM relocated subjects -- intertwining maths, science and art -- help students develop learning and problem solving skills that will be essential for their future work. Check out this...

New York’s Chateaugay Central School using Makers Empire 3D printing software

Makers Empire recently ran a series of 3D design and printing classes at Chateaugay Central School in New York as part of a statewide 3D printing pilot in conjunction with the New York Institute of Technology and the New York State Teachers Center. Lap Leung, co-founder of Makers Empire, gave Chateaugay students a personal masterclass in...

Watch how St Stephen’s School uses 3D printing to enhance learning

We love this video made by St Stephen's School that details how their teachers are using 3D printing -- and Makers Empire's 3D printing Learning Program -- to enhance student learning and engagement. Using the Makers Empire app to design and print out objects allows for a deeper understanding of the material being studied. Students find it enormously...

2 Australian schools using Makers Empire for innovative student collaboration

We were recently thrilled to hear about two schools in Perth, Western Australia, who are working together to use the Makers Empire 3D printing app to engage their respective students in a truly ingenious and innovative way. To start with, year 1 Scotch College Perth and Presbyterian Ladies College (PLC Perth) students created and printed individual characters using the Makers Empire app and the school’s new...

Korea’s Mogun Middle School using Makers Empire’s 3D printing software

Mogun Middle School in Korea is one of the first schools in the country to teach its students how to design and print in 3D using Makers Empire's 3D design and printing Learning Program. With this initiative, Mogun Middle School are leading the way as South Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning recently set in motion a...

Makers Empire bringing 3D printing to Korea’s Naeson Elementary School

Are you ready for 3D printing? The students at Naeson Elementary School in Korea are! Makers Empire recently visited Naeson Elementary School where a class of 10 year old students were treated to a personal demonstration of designing and 3D printing using Makers Empire's 3D design app by co-founder Lap Leung. The students took it in...

NY’s Maplewood Intermediate School exploring 3D printing with Makers Empire

"Please scan the QR code and research patents and inventions, Grade 5." When we first heard Maplewood Intermediate School teacher Lisa Hatton instructing her 10 year old students like this, we were impressed. It was not that long ago that some of us here at Makers Empire remember learning about patents and inventions as a subject for business, engineering and...

Japanese version of Makers Empire a hit with special needs students at Fablab Shibuya, Tokyo

A group of Japanese school students with special needs recently trialled the new Japanese language version of Makers Empire's 3D design and printing app at Fablab Shibuya in Tokyo and declared it a resounding hit. During the one-hour 3D printing class run by Fablab teachers, the students used the Makers Empire app, iPads and Fablab 3D...

3 essential questions with 3D printing education expert Phil Cotton

Today we’re pleased to bring you part two of a special, two-part interview with Phil Cotton, an award-winning 3D printing educator in the UK. (You can read part one here). Phil teaches 3D printing in design and technology at Ladybridge High School in Manchester, runs 3D printing workshops at the University of Manchester for undergraduate...

Makers Empire and DTSL bringing 3D printing to HK’s Baptist Rainbow Primary School and Lee Kau Yan Memorial School

Hong Kong parents have long seen education as a way to help secure a bright future for their children and their extended family. But in today's competitive job market, they expect schools to prepare their children not just for the jobs of today but for the jobs of tomorrow, too. Two innovative Hong Kong schools, Baptist Rainbow...

The Scots College first in NSW to use Makers Empire’s Learning Program

The Scots College in Sydney is the very first school in NSW to teach 3D printing and design to its students using Makers Empire's 3D design and printing Learning Program. The Scots College have also joined Makes Empire's Lighthouse School program, becoming part of a select group of schools who receive advance access to new app, module and lesson plan updates. In...

3 essential questions with 3D printing education expert Phil Cotton

Today we’re pleased to bring you part one of a special, two-part interview with Phil Cotton, an award-winning 3D printing educator in the UK. Phil teaches 3D printing in design and technology at Ladybridge High School in Manchester, runs 3D printing workshops at the University of Manchester for undergraduate teachers, is a learning consultant for the...

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