Mission

Through the FCPS Fab Lab, students and staff will be able to make their designs come to life eliminating the need for schools to use their own funds, time, and space.

Vision

Eliminating barriers to 3D design and printing and building creative and critical thinking skills for future and life-ready graduates, ensuring equitable opportunity and workforce success.

Getting Started:

Where can students design 3D Models?

For our beginning students, we recommend designing in Tinkercad. Students as young as Pre-K can design using basic 3D shapes or draw freeform shapes using the Scribble tool.

For our more experienced designers, we recommend Onshape for Chromebooks. On a laptop, consider downloading Blender or AutoDesk Fusion 360.

Chromebook Compatible

Ensuring Successful Prints

Fab Lab 3D Printing Guidelines.pdf

Fab Lab Printability Guidelines.mp4

Submit Your Students' Designs

After reviewing the Printability Guidelines with students, teachers may submit students' designs for printing.

Individual Student Designs
Class Projects
Special School Projects
STLP CDA Submissions

PILOTING NOW

$8 per teacher per month- cannot be banked over time.

Now Printing...

In the Queue...

Bullard Fire Fidgets

Students are working on designing fidgets for fire safety week in partnership with Bullard. Schools participating are Rise, GWC, Leestown, and STEAM Academy.

Past Prints

Deep Springs Divas Backpack Tags

After learning about women in STEM and how 3D printing is revolutionizing industry, girls in the after school Divas club designed backpack tags to show pride in their school and their club.

Dixie Elementary Multicultural Houses

Students researched homes around the world and chose their medium for designing and building one of the homes they researched. Several students chose 3D design.

Harrison Bookmarks

To celebrate Read Across America week, 3rd-5th grade students at Harrison Elementary designed bookmarks to help encourage reading.

Gallery:

Already have Bambu Printers?

Need help getting them onto the wifi?

Submit a help desk ticket with your printers' MAC addresses.

Check out this Getting Started Guide.

Still need help?

Reach out to your District Digital Learning Coach!

Don't know who is your District Digital Learning Coach? Click here.

Thank you to the Kloiber Foundation for funding the start up of this initiative and Complet3D for their partnership in printing.

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