STEM Club activity - 3D printing workshop
On 12th October, the STEM Club organised a lunchtime workshop to introduce the cutting- edge technology - 3D printing to our students. Our students were introduced the principle behind 3D printing which involves additive manufacturing three dimensional solid objects from a digital file readable by a 3D printer. During this process, successive layers of raw material will be laid down until the object is created. Our students also experienced 3D scanning during the workshop. With these technology and creativity, students are able to produce whatever products they wish to without boundary. However, the production of the digital file for 3D printing involves some technological skills in computer science, and therefore our School has recruited a pioneer group of 20 students on the spot to join a Certificate 3D Printing Introductory Course to be held next month.
This group of students will be trained with coding skills and all relevant technical skills required to operate the 3D printers in our school. As there are broad applications in 3D printing including manufacturing, medicine, architecture, art and design, and hopefully, our students would develop very specific and useful skills to serve our School and become a pioneer taskforce in this area in the future.
We are all very excited for the development of STEM in YHKCC.
