PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J.--Picatinny Arsenal put the power of 3-D printing into the hands of 23 teachers representing nine elementary, middle and high schools from Montclair, New Jersey, who participated in a 3-D printing workshop March 16-18 at Picatinny Arsenal.
This is the second 3-D workshop that Picatinny has hosted, and was sponsored by the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) program at the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center.
"These are maker-bot replica desk top printers. They look complicated but they are not. It's basically a hot glue gun and an HP printer that come together," said Shahram Dabiri, Picatinny's STEM Office Technology Manager. The 3-D printers were supplied by Montclair State University.
"I would like to first extend my gratitude to the people at Picatinny Arsenal who organized and hosted the three-day workshop," said Emrah Altunkaya, a Montclair high school physics teacher. "3-D printing is a new technology, and I am sure the future uses may be totally different than what we vision now."
Emrah plans to incorporate 3-D printing into understanding structure stability, such as building bridges with minimal weight for maximum strengths. For advanced students, Emrah plans to build parts or all of robots for robotics class as a way to reduce costs for managing the school's robotics team.
Lisa Gary's middle school pre-engineering class from Mt. Hebron Middle School describes the new technology as a "game changer." She added that if you take those skill sets, along with computer aided design software experience and maybe a passion for making things, you have the making of both an entrepreneur and corporate leader.
Other schools that participated in this three-day workshop were, Bradford Elementary, Charles H. Bullock Elementary, Hillside Elementary, Nishuane Elementary, Northeast Elementary, and Glenfield Middle School, Renaissance at Rand Middle School, Mount Hebron Middle School and Montclair High School.
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