Rosie Castle, one of the two middle school STEM teachers, is doing a special project with her 7th and 8th grade STEM students.
For her seventh graders, the first part of their project involves designing a mug on an application called “SketchUp for schools.” “SketchUp for schools” is a CAD (computer- aided design) program that DMS STEM students use to design items for the 3D printers.
For the second part of the project, her students will get to have their designed mugs printed on the 3D printer. Although this is not a new project this year, it is the first year that the students will be able to print their designs on the 3D printers.
Castle stated “I like the students completing this project because it demonstrates all the skills they learned in design/modeling courses. We are going to print prizes for the STEM open house in March and make prizes for the bottle races at the end of the year.” she said.
For her eighth grade students, their final project of the first semester was to draw out and build a model of a shed.
“I really like this project because it shows that students can measure length correctly. The whole process has taken about one month total, two weeks of sketching and two weeks of building. The entire project should be finished by the end of this week.”
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