In New Buffalo, Michigan, high school students help build the first 3D printing classroom. Last year, students helped physics teacher, Richard Eberly write a grant for the first printer kit to 3D4EDU. Now the 3-D technology sits on almost every lab table inside Room 238.
“It allows students to design and construct anything in the way they want in lab equipment components that can be built out of plastic, so we use PLA plastic,” said Eberly. The Society of Plastic Engineers funds all of the PLA (polylactic acid) material, which printers use as “ink” to create 3-D objects.