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Madeup at the Phillips Library

March 14, 2014 by . Filed under madeup, public.

Last Saturday, Madeup took its first step outside this building. The American Library Association designated this week as Teen Tech Week, and our local public library asked my department if we’d be interested in putting on a workshop for teenagers. I volunteered Madeup, despite its wobbly state.

About 30 participants showed up, with half as many put on a waiting list. We made a simple model together and then printed it on our cute little 3-D printer. The rest of the time the participants made models of their own. I’ve spent the past week getting their models printed. They turned out well:

Some of the models that participants coded up in our workshop at the library.