Meet students in Room 4 Kahikatea Hub

Welcome to the Kahikatea Hub.  This year our buildings are being renovated into ILE's.  At the moment 3 classes are being built.  We are in the 2 classroom hub and are waiting for our classroom to be turned into one big open space.  We have put together a little video of a brief introduction about ourselves.  Enjoy!

3D Printers In Our Classroom

I was in the class when two men came in and said, “hi we are Farshid and Baruk and we have 3D printers for you to trial.” I watched them set it up and pull out some blue and black PLA (plastic). The Baruk said “do you want black or pink” and I answered “pink”. So Baruk went out the door to get pink PLA. Then everyone came in and saw the 3D printers and we got into it. Farshid showed us a website called TINKERCAD and showed us how to make a design. We all took lessons to learn how to use it.

Our first challenge was to design our name using text. We had to make sure that the letters connected for it to print properly.  I learnt that in order for the design to work my design had to be sitting flat on the work plane.  If it didn’t the 3D printer would not print it would just hover over doing nothing.

I have enjoyed designing and printing. It has been fun and I have learnt something new.  I wonder if the school will purchase one of their own?

By Isla