By Sallye Coyle, September 4th, 2019 Fusion 360, a powerful cloud-based CAD/CAM software that is free for educators, has been gaining popularity in schools because the design files can be output to multiple digital fabrication tools such as CNC machines (like ShopBot tools), laser cutters, and 3D printers. While the price is right, sorting through the possibilities and keeping track of …
Continue reading >>> Digital Fabrication for Educators: Inaugural Fusion 360 Training
By Sallye Coyle, April 5th, 2018 Showing off projects created on a ShopBot CNC and a laser cutter
Do you own or have access to digital fabrication equipment such as a ShopBot CNC machine, laser cutter, or 3D printer, and an interest in education? Do you want to know more about the software and machines available for digital fabrication in …
Continue reading >>> Makerspaces in Education: Becoming Comfortable Using Your ShopBot and Other Digital Fabrication Tools
By Sallye Coyle, February 9th, 2018
Say “Educational Technology” to a room of teachers, administrators, and vendors, and you will get many different definitions. Having recently attended the Future of Educational Technology Conference (FETC 2018) as a “civilian” rather than an exhibitor, I was able to attend workshops and presentations, visit the entire convention floor of vendors (387), and stop …
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By Tim Babiasz, April 3rd, 2017
From March 13-15, 2017, ShopBot Tools attended the 2017 USFLN Symposium at Lewis and Clark Community College’s St. Louis Confluence Fab Lab in Edwardsville, IL. This year’s theme, “Stairway to Making”, featured a number of workshops and sessions highlighting the various steps that Fab Labs and Makerspaces can take to start, grow, and succeed in bringing digital fabrication …
Continue reading >>> Digital Fabrication Education at USFLN in Edwardsville, IL
By Tim Babiasz, February 15th, 2017
As a US Army veteran with 28 years of service, Jerry Abney has never been one to back down from a challenge. Upon return from a tour in Iraq in 2004, the vision in his right eye deteriorated to the point of blindness. The very next year, he was diagnosed with retinoschisis of the left eye, leaving …
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By Sallye Coyle, November 30th, 2016 Carnegie Science Center is a popular spot for a play date, where children and adults can experience science first hand. It is also home to a Chevron FabLab, a digital fabrication laboratory for innovation and invention. The Carnegie FabLab holds camps and programs for children 8 – 18. Its mobile lab brings in depth digital …
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By Sallye Coyle, November 7th, 2016 ATEA Region 5 meets in North Platte, Nebraska
North Platte, NE often serves as a stopping place on the transit between the East and the West Coasts of America. The Original Transcontinental Airways that carried mail between Washington D.C., New York & San Francisco made a stopover at the North Platte Landing Field, which was the …
Continue reading >>> Recognizing the Community in Colleges in Heartland America
By Michael Berliner, March 24th, 2016 The Handibot® Smart Power Tool, Adventure Edition. ShopBot is donating two of the tools to the CTE Makeover Challenge, as well as introductory training.
ShopBot Tools is proud and excited to be a leading sponsor of the CTE (Career & Technical Education) Makeover Challenge, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education.What’s the big …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot a key sponsor of CTE Makeover Challenge
By Michael Berliner, March 19th, 2016 Middle schooler helps assemble a ShopBot
There has certainly been a lot of press ink, as well as talk coming from the business and political establishment, about the need for more STEM education in the U.S. to better educate our young people to compete for jobs. Nowhere is the talk turning into action more …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot helps Florida schools establish sorely needed STEM education
By Michael Berliner, December 21st, 2015 Lorain County Community College
It all started with a high school student raising his hand and asking a simple question: “Can we have a Fab Lab here?”
The year was 2005, and the questioner was a high-school aged student enrolled in the early college program offered by Lorain County Community College in Elyria, …
Continue reading >>> Ohio Fab Lab provides 21st century skills and supports entrepreneurship
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