Fact: 100% of people building their first 3D printer have never built a 3D printer before. So, for about 60 teachers at O’Maley Innovation Middle School in Gloucester, Massachusetts to put together 27 3D printer kits with no previous experience isn’t completely nuts. After all, someone from the school would need to construct them for the school’s new tech lab. So, O’Maley’s School Technology Specialist Dave Brown and Science teacher Amy Donnelly put out a call for volunteers.
At GoodMorningGloucester, Jim Dowd relays the tale of the O’Maley 3D Printer Make-a-Thon, in which 60 locals help assemble the 27 MakerFarm Prusa i3 kits purchased with a donation from the Gloucester Education Foundation with nothing but the parts themselves and a series of videos by a young Maker named Colin, which Dowd describes as “like your college roommate on Saturday night after you’ve been studying all day and he’s been ‘hanging out’ and now he’s trying to explain Kirkegaard to you.…
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