A MakerBot in Every Classroom!
Here at MakerBot, we believe that children are our future. Imagine what your life would be like if you had owned a MakerBot as a kid!
The media is picking up on this idea too. Check out this piece in Forbes, and this one in the Wall Street Journal, covering MakerBot’s mission to get Thing-O-Matics into the hands of the next generation.
MakerBot is already in a number of schools around the U.S., including New York City public and private school teachers and NSF funded GK12 fellows from NYU-Poly University. Want to get MakerBotting on the curriculum at your or your child’s school? Email [email protected] and check out our sample curriculum here.
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[...] But much like Gage’s neuroscience outreach plan, Pettis wants to reach beyond the insular maker community, and begin inspiring kids. “We’re trying to get a Makerbot into every classroom,” Pettis says. The locus of the initiative is currently in New York — where Pettis and company are located — with 3-D printers installed inside of private and public NYC-area secondary schools. [...]