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Middle school 3D printing program garners international attention

"We’re in on the ground floor of bringing manufacturing and technology into the classrooms and we hope to make this a seventh- through 12th-grade program. This is the start."

The start is the result of a $300,000 state grant to create a "laboratory school for advanced manufacturing technologies."

With a Japanese television news crew keeping close watch last week, science students at Buford Middle School in Virginia crafted their own sound speakers from plastic and paper.

They did it using three-dimensional printers and computer design software to produce plastic supports, paper cones, and other pieces.

"I think it’s interesting that they’re including 3D computerization and printing into the education program at this level and what it means for the future of job training in the U.S.," said Takashi Yanagisawa, a correspondent with Japan’s Nippon Television. "This is what President [Barack] Obama talked of in his State of the Union address, about bringing technology into schools for job training."

Full Story: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2013/03/18/middle-school-3d-printing-program-garners-international-attention/?ps=207479-0013000000j13I7-0033000000qi9AL

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