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UIOWA Partners with M.C. Ginsberg to Offer Course in 3D Design and Printing of Hover Cars

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Greg Johnson

[Source: “Design Your Own 3D Printing Hover Cars — Through a recent program, local children design hover cars and learn about 3D printing,” Daily Iowan, 18 June 2015, by Yun Lin]

Kids fly high designing hover-cars – The Daily Iowan
By Yun Lin / 18 June 2015 @ 5:00 AM

A new class this summer gives kids a chance to have a high time designing model hover cars.

The Belin-Blank Center of UI College of Education is collaborating with M.C. Ginsberg’s Advanced 3D design and manufacturing studio to start a new program that offers children an opportunity to get real 3D printing and design experiences.

The program — Design for Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing: Bringing Your Engineering and Artistic Ideas to Life — is underway.

“The program is going really well between Ginsberg studio and Belin-Blank Center, and students are challenged and having fun,” said Lori Lhrig, the supervisor for curriculum and instruction at the Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development.

Kids are learning how to run software used to design model hover cars from artists and engineers. All the models are 3D printed at one of the University of Iowa’s two 3D printing facilities.

The UI’s 3D printers are located in the Studio Arts Building and at the Seamans Center.

Participants can take the models home with them, said program instructor Kevin Wilkinson.

It is a fantastic experience to both children and founders of this program.

“It’s been actually very enjoyable for the teachers to engage in because children are here to learn,” Mark Ginsberg, the owner of M.C Ginsberg Objects of Art, said.

“It is not something we are forcing them to listen or forcing them to participate in,”Ginsberg said. “They come here voluntarily, so I believe the kids are enjoying it as well.”

The goal of the program is pushing children to face challenges, solve problems, and collaborate with others.

“We want to challenge the students as well as expose them to art, engineering, entrepreneurship and to be able to work in an authentic studio space,” Lhrig said.

Not all children learn from this class is what a 3D printer is or how to use one, she said.

“The broader perspective of the class is about giving students a chance to think in creative, collaborative, and problem solving ways,” she said.

All the children involved in this program are from grade six through eight, so the program is interesting enough to get them excited about participating.

“Giving the students an opportunity to be in the class like this, their minds are like sponges and have a high potential to succeed in the future,” Ginsberg said.

Officials hope that inspiration for future engineers and art designers will be sparked by a class or program such as this, Wilkinson said.

The founders of this program, Lhrig and Ginsberg, are keen to see children break the barriers between academic disciplines as well as cultural differences by taking the class.

“We get to try to intersect culture and academic disciplines and teach the kids how to work with each other, and to embrace ideas that they may not be familiar with,” Ginsberg said.

Getting children to step out of their comfort zone is a big part of the program, Lhrig said.

“We are taking all motivated and capable students in this environment and asking them to stretch beyond where they are at,” she said.

Photos from the Event

You can view a photo album from the event by visiting the M.C. Ginsberg Facebook page photo album for the event.

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Iowa City STEAM Room Fab Lab Brochure

Posted on June 16, 2015June 16, 2015 by Iowa City 3D

Here’s a scanned copy of the Iowa City STEAM Room Fab Lab Brochure.

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Support the Iowa City STEM Robotic Summer Camp for Girls

Posted on June 16, 2015June 16, 2015 by Iowa City 3D

Please Support The Iowa City STEM Robotic Summer Camp for Girls

an appeal from Denise Szecsei

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Iowa

* * *

Time is running out and I need some help with funding the next step in my Robot Theater Summer Camp project. I applied for a $100K grant from Chase to expand the camp I’ve developed for 5th and 6th grade girls, and need Facebook votes to get to the next level!

I’ve made it easy: you can vote here: http://modnarenterprises.com (scroll down to the Fundraising section).

More info….

Our first summer camp will take place in 3 weeks. This pilot camp has external funding (we received a community action grant from AAUW) and is fully enrolled. We’re fundraising to expand it to other communities in 2016. We need 250 votes to get to the next level with the Chase grant, and right now we are up to 174. We’d love your vote and help with spreading the word by sharing your vote and your vote number (as well as this post!) on your Facebook page! The deadline is June 19th.

Here is how you can help:

  • We need your vote (your family members can also vote)
  • We need help spreading the word and encouraging people in your social network to vote in support of this project.
  • We can induce some exponential growth if this message continues to spread. Please encourage your friends to share this information with THEIR friends, so that they can vote and spread the message, and their friends can spread the message, and…well, you get the idea.

See the robots on YouTube (they’re really cute!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMG9H6fP4C4

You can read a description of the development of the project here: http://modnarenterprises.com/Paper.pdf

You can read the text of the grant proposal here: http://modnarenterprises.com/ModnaRBusinessGrant.pdf

Spread the word, and help us inspire girls to code. Together, we can turn STEM into STEAM by embedding the arts in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.

If you want to talk more about this project with me, feel free to e-mail me. As this project grows, we will be looking for new communities interested in partnering to offer Robot Theater Summer Camps. So, if you have connections in other parts of Iowa (or in other parts of the country), please pass this information on to them.

Thank you!
Denise

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Neil Gershenfeld: The beckoning promise of personal fabrication

Posted on March 23, 2007February 20, 2015 by Iowa City 3D

Originally recorded in February 2006 and published by TED Talks to YouTube on 23 March 2007. (source)

Synopsis. MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab — a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It’s a simple idea with powerful results.

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  • UIOWA Partners with M.C. Ginsberg to Offer Course in 3D Design and Printing of Hover Cars June 19, 2015
  • Iowa City STEAM Room Fab Lab Brochure June 16, 2015
  • Support the Iowa City STEM Robotic Summer Camp for Girls June 16, 2015
  • UIOWA Engineering Student Makes Solar Cook Stove February 9, 2015
  • Iowa City 3D Community Website February 6, 2015
  • Metal Plated 3D Printing from Shapeways February 6, 2015
  • Precious Plated Metal 3D Printing from Shapeways: A Closer Look February 6, 2015
  • UI Partners Offers Web and Tech Consulting for Iowa Small Businesses February 6, 2015
  • 2015 Iowa City 3D Technologies Symposium February 3, 2015
  • Charles Romans – 3D Printing Services February 3, 2015
  • Neri Oxman – The MIT Mediated Matter Lab and MaterialEcology.com February 3, 2015
  • Autodesk Fusion 360 CAD/CAM System February 2, 2015
  • Autodesk Meshmixer February 2, 2015
  • CREAFORM Handyscan3D EXAscan February 2, 2015
  • 3D Printed Fibonacci Zoetrope Animated Sculptures in Motion (Video) February 2, 2015
  • Fab Lab hopes to buy permanent space January 22, 2015
  • 3D Printed Prosthetic Arms You Can Control with Your Brain January 20, 2015
  • Mindful Media: Easton LaChappelle’s Great Project – Brain Controlled Prosthetics January 19, 2015
  • Riding in a 3D-printed car – NAIAS 2015 January 13, 2015
  • 3D Systems ushers in the Home of the Now at CES 2015 January 7, 2015
  • Zero Waste 3D Printing: 3D Print. Recycle. Remake. January 6, 2015
  • Neri Oxman: Revolution in Art & Design using 3D Printing with the Stratasys Objet Connex500 multi-material 3D printer November 4, 2014
  • Stratasys Triple Jetting Technology for 3D Multimaterial Printing November 4, 2014
  • DITV: Studio Arts 3D Printing Services October 8, 2014

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