Tech Ed Teacher Mike Fellin shows off a rolling pin that was fixed by DDHS senior Jacob Chapman using tools in the Comet Creations Fab Lab.
Broken door handles? No problem. Engineering students in the DDHS Fab Lab can fix them.
Need new machine ID tags for the equipment at your private business? No problem. The engineering students in the DDHS Fab Lab can make them.
Got a broken rolling pin? No problem. Engineering students in the DDHS Fab Lab can fix it, too.
Jacob Chapman
Those were just three examples Technology Education Teacher Mike Fellin touted at the April 25 announcement ceremony of a $14,000 Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation grant aimed to support the DDHS Fab Lab and elementary and middle school Maker Spaces.
Fellin talked at the event about some of the many great projects coming out of the Comet Creations Fab Lab. We’ve told you before about the door handles and the machine ID tags.
The broken rolling pin was just a recent example of a DDHS student identifying a problem and creating a solution for it, all with the help of some powerful and state-of-the-art equipment and technology we have.
The rolling pin came from our DDHS kitchen. In need of new handles, DDHS senior Jacob Chapman took on the task of making replacements.
He measured out what he needed using a 3-D scanner, tweaked the design in an AutoCAD program, then printed the handles in plastic on one of the lab’s 3-D printers… in blue and gold Comet colors of course.
It may seem like a simple task, but Chapman and his fellow students are using the tools inside the lab to prepare for high-tech careers in industry. Business and manufacturing experts told us the world needs more people who can “talk to machines” to make them create what society needs. That’s exactly one of the things the Fab Lab does for students; lets them examine real-world problems and create real-world solutions. #Amazing!