I attended the 3D printing Future Ready session hosted by the IRC and its amazing staff on Tuesday, September 24^th! The purpose of the workshop was to introduce teacher candidates to 3D printing, show us resources where we can access premade 3D printing files or where we can create our own, and give us examples of how to implement 3D printing into our teaching practices.

I am so happy to have attended this future ready workshop because I was not at all familiar with 3D printing beforehand, but now I feel like I learned so much and have many resources at my disposal to try and implement it with students! I learned about the basics of 3D printing at Brock such as the IRC and Gibson Library have 3D printers that teacher candidates can use, 3D printers use PLC plastic made from corn or beets, and that the plastic goes comes in spools of filament before being used by the machine. I also discovered that there are 3D doodler pens for younger students to use. Did you know that a typical 3D printing project takes several hours to complete!?!? Lastly, I learned about valuable resources for 3D printing like TinkerCAD where you can create your own designs and thingiverse.com which provides you with ready-made designs and lesson plans.