There is still time to enroll your child in a very important learning opportunity, and good news: the price has dropped and the eligibility has expanded!

NYU Poly’s Center for K-12 STEM Education and MakerBot are combining powers to get kids introduced to 3D modeling and 3D printing. This is an excellent chance to give them a leg up with a set of skills that will become very advantageous in the near future.

Here are the details:

Where: NYU-Poly Campus
6 MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY
Room RH 214

When: July 9th-13th, 2012 from 9am to 3pm daily

Who: Ages 10-13

Cost:  $500 $400/student (includes a lunch voucher good in our cafeteria)

Email [email protected] to find out more.

Click here to sign up!

MakerBot wants to congratulate the NYU Poly Team Atlas 2012 on their success at NASA’s Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition!

These MakerBotters are an awesome group of students using their Thing-O-Matic to make all kinds of things, related and unrelated to the goal of building a lunar mining robot. Here’s the exact language from the competition page:

The challenge is for students to design and build an excavator, called a Lunabot, that can mine and deposit a minimum of 10 kilograms of lunar simulant within 10 minutes.

Team Atlas took home the Judges Innovation Award and Third Place in the Team Spirit Award category. Throughout the competition, they were making things for other teams, like actual robot parts, but also souvenirs like Dr. Who Tardises¹ and Space Shuttle models. How generous!

Here’s the team’s Lunabot, “Atlas02″ in action.

Congratulations Jack Poon, Stanislav Rosylakov, Yusif Nurizade, Jessica Aleksandrowicz, Nick Cavaliere, Salvatore DiAngelus, Matthew Izberskiy, Ryan Caeti, and advisors!

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If you’re a parent in the New York City region, take a look at this great summer workshop being organized by NYU Poly. “On the Move” is a week-long program targeted to students entering 6th, 7th, and 8th grades in the fall, and it is focused on 3D modeling and 3D printing. These are the skills that will set the next generation of creative kids apart from their peers. Get them started now!

We’re especially proud to recommend this program, since the MakerBot Education Team, Liz Arum and Jon Santiago, will be leading the instruction. Here’s some info from the website.

This workshop will focus on 3D Printing, one of the most disruptive technologies around. 3D printers allow anyone at any skill level to become producers, inventors and artists, and they are changing the way we create and learn.  During this one-week intensive workshop students will learn how to make and personalize 3D models with free, readily available software like Tinkercad, OpenSCAD and Blender. Our theme will be “On the Move,” and we will be focusing on making gears, interlocking parts and other physical mechanisms to make our creations, walk, shake, dance and fly. No prior modeling, computer or printing experience is necessary.

Where: NYU-Poly Campus
6 MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY
Room RH 214

When: July 9th-13th, 2012 from 9am to 3pm daily

Cost:  $500.00/student (includes a lunch voucher good in our cafeteria)

Questions? Email Susan Hermon at [email protected]

NYU-Poly's Lunabotics Team shows off MakerBots at MakerDay

NASA’s third annual Lunabotics Mining Competition is a mere 52 days away. I know that because the NYU-Poly Lunabotics team has a countdown clock on their page. That team is working its way toward a submission for the contest using Thing-O-Matics and Cupcake CNCs to prototype the robot parts! (UPDATE: this really brings to mind tbuser’s Mars Rover on Thingiverse. It’s been copied 19 times, and someone should probably round that off to an even 20 before the end of the day. Just sayin’.)

That is exciting in itself, but we were happy to receive a quick update yesterday — we lurve updates — and find out these guys are spreading the knowledge to other entrepreneurs in the NYC area. Team member Jack Poon posted that the group brought TOMs and a Cupcake over to NYU’s MakerDay last week.

…we were showing entrepreneurs a tool that can really help their businesses jump off the ground. A lot of them had a lot of ideas sparking. Instead of waiting forever for something or contracting out prototyping to machinists, now they could do it all themselves cheaply after a initial investment of $1999. There are even free tools online to help them get started with designing such as Google Sketchup.

It was also nice to hear that the obvious evolution from Cupcake to Thing-O-Matic was inspiring for the entrepreneurs. In case you missed it, there was a cool picture up this week showing those two next to our latest darling, The Replicator.

For more info on the NASA competition, look here. We cannot wait to see what the NYU-Poly team comes up with!

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