Down at the Alley – Primary school visit

3D printing for schools in Berlin

We love school visits. Today 12 members of Charles Dickens Primary school 2nd grade visited us for a class in how 3D printing works. We use fruit and cake to explain slicing an object into thin layers to print. Lego Duplo is used to demonstrate what happens when we tried to build arms on a robot without any support structure beneath!   All children made their own keyrings to take home. We create a basic shape in Tinkercad (an easy to use, browser based CAD programme) and the kids drag, size and drop text and shapes onto the basic key ring form. Then comes the real magic. Having prepared the keyrings for print, the children choose their colour to print with. Together we load the printers with their plastic filament spool and start their print. After that we enjoy a coffee while the children sit mesmerised in front of the 3D printers, watching their creations materialise.