NEW! The Globe 3D Printing Club - starts 4pm Tuesday 16 October
During EU Code Week (16-20 October 2018) and in the following weeks, we would like to take a significant extra step at The Globe by starting a 3D Printing Club for twenty young people, aged between 10 and 24. Members of the new club and our adult volunteers will work together, first to build a 3D Printer from scratch, using a basic kit of parts to make a functional 3D printer, then further developing the software to enable the printer to make its own additional parts so that we can develop it into a more reliable and higher quality printer, which will ultimately be capable of making high resolution colour objects, all designed and coded by the young people. As the Club continues, young people will learn the benefits of working together to develop and use coding to create solid objects.
If you would like to join this exciting new club, please sign up now at The Globe Community Library, Stokesley.
People can put their names down by email – library.theglobe@gmail.com or via the website; by telephoning 01609 533461; or in person at the library during opening hours!
We expect the course to be fully subscribed very quickly, and there is no charge to take part, as we have won financial support from Meet and Code, a European organisation dedicated to helping young people to become more IT literate.
The first session will be on Tuesday 16 October, starting at 4:00 pm. Our trainer is a recent Informatics graduate from the University of Edinburgh and we are very lucky that he has agreed to run the course for us. The Globe is open until 6:30 pm on Tuesdays, and this first event will provide the key information needed to build a 3D Printer from a standard kit of parts. Over the coming weeks, the course will build on this knowledge, eventually creating a working printer and using it to print 3D objects from graphics code files.
If you would like to know more about the club, check out the sponsors’ website http://meet-and-code.org/gb/en/event-vote/1040
If you enter your email address on this site you will be able read more about our project and vote for our club to receive lots more funding in the future – the project with the most votes will get extra cash!