This past J-term the FabLab provided 375 hours of 3D printing, creating over 250 prints related to 3D Puzzles, Cubesat and BioEngineering. 

Art and Technology, co-taught by Carrie Alter and Bec Conrad, student Tony Kelly ‘21 made a 21st century version of an oil painting, painted-by-number by his grandfather in the 1950’s. He digitally rendered every block of color in the painting and etched each one onto eleven layers of clear acrylic on the FabLab’s Laser Cutter. The final artwork was then edge-lit by programmable LED’s and controlled with an Arduino, all skills that he learned in the FabLab. The artwork was chosen to be exhibited on stage at a TEDxYouth@NCSSM event on January 10th, 2020. 

“Pizzabot was designed and built by students in the Introduction to Entrepreneurship class.  It was the culmination of two trimesters wherein students were to innovate a new product, conduct customer discovery research, design a business model, and ultimately build a high-end minimum viable product (prototype).  It is true that Pizzabot took home the award for Most Innovative product at our entrepreneurial competition.  Turns out the Pizzabot actually worked quite well, at least during the evening of the competition. Good times.” - Chad Keister 

In 2019 FabLab TA De’Rishio Reid ‘20 was taking Dr Letita Hubbard’s Biomedical Engineering course. The course has a Shoe Design project for the Intro to Biomechanics: Kinematics and Kinetics section, in which they use data collected by force plate and videography to inform their designs. At the end of 2019, De’Rishio decided to try out the FabLab's flexible 3D Print filament to print the sole of the shoe he and his team had designed. Traditionally students cut and glue foam pieces together to create a mock-up. De’Rishio and Anushka Deshmukh ‘20 were so successful in producing a realistic prototype that this year Dr. Hubbard is requiring all 50 of her BME students to use 3D modeling and 3D printer technology for the Shoe Design Project.