Ultimaker donates 3D printers with America Makes to assist introduce younger girls to 3D printing

Ultimaker will donate greater than 20 3D printers by way of its newly created partnership with America Makes, one of many main organisations within the US for additive manufacturing and 3D printing know-how analysis, discovery, creation and innovation. 

The printers will probably be utilized in center colleges and excessive colleges, alongside neighborhood organisations and non-profits throughout the nation. The businesses share the objective of rising consciousness, inspiration and entrepreneurship alternatives for 3D printing know-how amongst younger girls, numerous teams and communities.

The Ultimaker printers, assembled in Memphis, Tennessee, will allow younger girls throughout the USA to develop the potential for improvements with additive manufacturing as they study, experiment and innovate with 3D printing. Ultimaker printers are already situated in colleges and universities worldwide, the brand new partnership will strengthen this dedication.

“With our partnership with America Makes, we intention so as to add sustainable worth throughout our neighborhood and foster an surroundings of fairness that permits the subsequent era of engineers to leverage 3D printing and resolve the world’s challenges with additive manufacturing,” stated James Butler, Vice President Ultimaker, Americas.

On the America Makes web site, potential collaborators can discover info on educational packages, info on the partnership, and submission varieties for doable choice. If eligible, organisations will obtain an Ultimaker printer package deal, and will probably be supported with a tailor-made software program and informational property package deal.

Josh Cramer, Schooling and Workforce Growth Director at America Makes, stated: “We’re delighted that Ultimaker has supplied its 3D printing know-how, a essential useful resource we have to develop the illustration of girls and numerous populations in each technical fields and engineering, significantly additive manufacturing.”

Cramer additionally went on to say: “We consider growing variety of youth pursuing these sort of careers is not going to solely profit the additive trade however all of producing.”

This continues Ultimaker’s historical past of offering instructional organisations with 3D printing packages, introducing college students to the know-how to offer them with new alternatives.

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