Silicon Library! The Globe's 3D Printing Club wins €2,500 for their Project
You’ve heard of Silicon Valley and Silicon Roundabout - now it’s time to celebrate Silicon Library!
The Globe’s 3D Printing Club, which meets in the library every Tuesday evening during term-time, entered its project in the Meet and Code Awards that were held on the SAP (one of the event’s sponsors) Campus at Walldorf, near Mannheim in Germany. The judges voted unanimously for the team’s project in the Innovation category and we won a trophy, a certificate and €2,500! We were the only UK team to take part and we have been invited to return next year with another project.
The Globe started its 3D Printing Club for up to 20 young people, aged between 10 & 24, in October 2018. Members of the new club & volunteers are working 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 it can be developed into a more reliable and higher quality printer. This 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.
Pictured are Peter Chandler, a Globe Trustee and Globe Volunteer Mark Jenkins plus a number of regular club members. (In no particular order) Matthew Hill, Eoin Reilly, Gustas Dudivicious, Toby Thornton, Alexandra Horner, William Benn, Sebastian Carr-Smith, Tom Volkro, Louis Copley, and Morgan Cassidy.
There are plans to use the cheque to finance a new junior IT club to work with Raspberry Pi and Robotics. Watch this space.