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 Sallye Coyle, February 21st, 2017
Do you have digital fabrication equipment such as a ShopBot CNC machine, laser cutter, and/or a 3D printer, and an interest in education? Do you want to know more about the software and machines available to you? Are you a facilitator of a digital FabLab or Makerspace who would like to join a …
Continue reading >>> Digital Fabrication in Education Workshop
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 …
Continue reading >>> Professional Development for Educators in Pittsburgh: Carnegie Science Center
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 Sallye Coyle, September 26th, 2016 Teachers and students with their finished projects
When Rick Sheldahl, Career and Technical Education Director of the Durham (NC) Public School System, and Don Ramsey, carpentry instructor at Southern School of Energy and Sustainability visited ShopBot in 2014, they were looking for an affordable CNC machine that could help their students set up a production …
Continue reading >>> Durham Public School System Invests in CTE and STEM Education
By Michael Berliner, August 15th, 2016 Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[box] is arguably one of the largest and most dynamic maker spaces in the country. think[box] is located at Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and provides a space for anyone – students, faculty, and alumni and members of the community – to tinker and …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot one of the most popular tools at think[box] maker space
By Sallye Coyle, April 27th, 2016 Do you have digital fabrication equipment such as a ShopBot CNC machine, laser cutter, and/or a 3D printer, and an interest in education? Do you want to know more about the software and machines available to you? Are you a facilitator of a digital fab lab or makerspace who would like to join a support …
Continue reading >>> Digital Fabrication in Education Workshop
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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