The folks at the New Futures Education Lab have a conception of digital design literacy that is about so much more than dominating the mechanics of 3D design and fabrication. It’s about using these skills to leverage our deeply creative capacities and aesthetic sensibilities in the service of radical innovation and imagination. Iain and Jason’s emergent design approach has not only informed my design thinking, it’s also taken my research in new and vital directions.
Steven Greenstein
STEM Innovation Professor, Montclair State University
Thank you to Jason Frasca and Iain Kerr for helping West Orange School District successfully embrace and grow our 3D printing program in all of our schools district wide. Their expertise has proven invaluable when it comes to purchasing printers, training on use, and integration across the curriculum for all grade levels. Our staff has learned best practices from attending their workshops and grown in their own pedagogy. We value our partnership with them and highly recommend them.
Nancy Mullin
Supervisor of Career Education and Library Science, West Orange Public Schools
Empowering Educators to Teach with Confidence
With fast, effective, and transformative STEM creativity methods and pedagogy
• CAD Software: From Tinkercad to Autodesk Fusion 360 and beyond
• Digital Design philosophies, techniques, curriculum, and lesson plans
• 3D Printing - hardware to software
◦ From single printer to lab + workflows and best practices
◦ Advising on purchasing and makerspace design
• Integrating STEM, STEAM, and creativity throughout the curriculum
• For any level -> novice to professional
• Any teacher: K-12 to higher education to robotics coaches
• Consultation: classes to custom support
• Satisfies Professional Development hours
Blown away by the methodology used to introduce 3D design, establishing facility with foundation features by repetitive design exercises using these features.
Bill Ruhl
High School Physics & STEM Teacher, Golda Och Academy
Over the past seven years, my collaboration with Iain and Jason has been nothing short of exceptional. Their extensive industry experience serves as a cornerstone for educators seeking to navigate the journey from conceptual design to tangible realization. Their profound expertise is particularly invaluable for those endeavoring to establish makerspaces or optimize existing workflows.
Rene-Oscar Ariko
Business Development Executive and Co-founder, 3D Control Systems
20+ Years Teaching Award-Winning Innovation Methods
Customized for Your Classroom
With a quarter of a century of experience developing, running, and managing cutting-edge makerspaces, and designing STEM innovation curriculum, we bring transformative, award winning, and internationally recognized experience to your classroom.
The lab's powerful impact and expertise in teaching 3D design became apparent to me when our museum engaged their students for a CAD-based project. The young people coming out of their program are fully fluent in the language and methods of innovation design, confident in tackling new design challenges, and are clearly inspired to pursue future STEAM careers by the learning experience with Jason and Iain.
Eve Schaenen
Executive Director, Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center
Two things I loved about this workshop:
1. Finding techniques for teaching this to students so that they learn through "doing and making", and
2. Finding the right technology that’s best for my classroom and getting time actually to print/troubleshoot prints.
Kevin Cardenas
Cresskill Middle/High School
How We Can Help You
Teachers & Robotics Coaches
Get hands-on with 3D Printers and CAD software - beginner to advanced
School Districts
Strategy for space, technology, and training your digital design teachers
Makerspaces / 3D Printing Labs
Best practices for layout, design, hardware, tools, and workflow
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Creativity and innovation curriculum and pedagogy for STEM, STEAM, entrepreneurship, and 3D Printing
Why People Love Us
One of the best workshops I have attended in my 6 years of teaching. The two days met different concerns that I had for my upcoming year of teaching several STEM courses. I now have so many ideas about what to teach and how to teach it. Thank you for your time, effort, and professionalism.
Matthew Ducker Duffy
Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School
Really helpful workshop that makes me feel more confident in my instruction! As a new teacher, I really appreciate the way the instructors created practical applications for 3D printing, so what I learned will definitely be incredibly helpful to my teaching practice.
Bridget Day
Gregory Elementary School
This workshop was well worth two summer days! I loved that you didn't tell us how to do things but let us struggle through the learning process. Loved this workshop, the pace, the instructors...all great!
Toni-Ann Raj
Woodmont Elementary School
Thanks to Iain and Jason for their patience and for being so accommodating. They are wonderful teachers and hosts. I truly enjoyed all aspects of this workshop.
June Polidoro
St. Anthony School
I'd go for a whole series of these, where we could go even more in-depth: Learning through the eyes of our students and thinking about the implications of the plasticity of the software on the design process.
Tim Steen
Eastern Christian School
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