Young Makers

I've had a nice time in the last couple weeks being able to work with two young makers, who both seemed very positive about the experience. In both cases, they used the iPhone App 123D Sculpt+, with no instructions at all, and created fun models. The first one is a toadstool by a third grader. The colors were by request.

This second one is the Enterprise by a 6th grader, who was doing a school project on 3D printing. This was the first version, but I reprinted it larger in the requested color of white. Unfortunately I did not take a photo of the larger white version.

It was great fun, and I hope to have the chance to try this again another time. With third graders, I cannot imagine doing anything more mathematical, but with a 6th grader, I believe simple OpenSCAD coding is within reach. It would be a good way to reinforce the concepts of translation and scaling that are being taught in the 6th grade math class.