A community that can meet its own needs, can shape its culture and destiny. But without the ability to manufacture, we become too reliant on others. We don’t want to be mere consumers of products, designed elsewhere, for someone else. We want to make our own things.
3D Printing Nerd :
Joel and David have built the world’s leading community for additive manufacturing. They’ve produced hundreds of videos that can introduce you to the exciting world of 3D printing, and they are helping to lead the CMI.
Print Files :
Your print farm needs models, and Experiential is creating open source resources that will help you get started. From XRP classroom robots, to summer camp resources, AI developer kits, and even robots for precision agriculture - our models are designed to be made in your farm, for your community.
CMI Courses
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Want to learn more? Check out these instructional resources that will help your program get started. Advanced manufacturing skills can be taught to high school and college students, and skills like supply chain management, quality control, CAD, and preventative maintenance will help prepare the next generation of our manufacturing workforce.
The pandemic taught us that we can do this. When our medical supply chains were disrupted, communities all across the country stepped up with their 3D printers and started making PPE at home. From simple face shields to complex medical devices and replacement parts - people pulled together and made what we needed here at home.
Adam Smith tells the story of making pins, and how specialization allows for greater productivity. We’ve come along way since then — Advanced Manufacturing opens up new opportunities that Smith could only have imagined. Automation is replacing arduous manual labor with technical expertise - and the ability to design and manage machines are the manufacturing skills of the future. Today, the “wealth of nations” will be created by those skilled in automation.
The best way to teach students about manufacturing is to let them make real things for other students. In our first CMI pilot we taught the students of Spark Academy to make XRP robots for the classrooms in New Hampshire, and within 90 days, the print farm had paid for itself. When advanced manufacturing programs make education products for their districts, we can spend our scarce education dollars twice - and in the process give our students the chance to step up and meet real needs in their communities.
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