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LEARNING 3-D PRINTING — Two members of Akron Elementary School’s 3-D printing club, fourth graders Declan Carrothers, left, and Nash Mills, show off objects they’ve made through it. Fourth and fifth grade students are allowed to be in the club.
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Akron Elementary School student Nash Mills likes “creating stuff.” It’s why the fourth grader joined the school’s 3-D printing club. In its second year, the program allows fourth and fifth grade students to make various small plastic objects. Club advisor and Akron fourth grade teacher Chris Rassi said Akron Principal Scott Sterk asked him to start the extracurricular activity. The school has received three printers through grants, with two
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CREATING OBJECTS — Two of Akron Elementary School’s 3-D printers create objects in Akron fourth grade teacher Chris Rassi’s classroom. Rassi leads the school’s 3-D printing club.
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more gifted from Pike Lumber Co. of Akron. Rassi is leading two sessions of the club with eight students apiece this spring. Kids meet three times a week after school for an hour. “During the club meetings, they get on a program ... called Tinkercad and then they can build their module inside Tinkercad and then it goes into a program called Wiibuilder,” explained Rassi. “Wiibuilder pushes it out to the printers, and then they print from there.” Students can pick the color of plastic that their objects will print out. Rassi said the printing can Continued on page 3
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