Tech Internship and 3D Printing

3D-Printing at Pleasant Hill:

This is our 3D-Printer that we purchased after writing a grant to Plum Creek, a local timber company. We have also written grants for another 3D-printer and desktop CNC router. I have been the main tester to learn how to use these machines, assembling, modeling, and printing parts for our robot. These machines have been an invaluable resource to the robotics team and are the reason that we now have a Technology Specialist teacher, who is starting to teach classes involving 3D-Printing.

Here you can see our printer after it printed a custom robot part designed for launching wiffle balls.

Above is our design station that was also purchased through a grant, on the right you can see our code as well as one of the parts I have designed for the robot, If you look at the robot page, you can see that it is the attachment piece for the Ninjaflex grippers.

Above our some examples of what our school has 3D-Printed. On the left is our reject and retired parts bucket. On the left you can see one of our more complicated prints. It is a tape measure which we motorized to move in and out as well as angle the entire part. This part was used as a hook to hang our robot from a pole, the carbon fiber hook was made by a local company that we reached out too.

Tech Internship:

I spent two summers working with my school's IT Department and one school year. Through these internships I learned skills that I couldn't in a classroom and gained valuable experience.

I was the first to help create these positions and now several other students have also participated in these experiences. This has expanded the tech education opportunities at Pleasant Hill.