September 2020
Dear All Teachers, Parents and Students:
STEAM Tech Teams’ course, “Magic and 3D Design” is available online to students in the Greenville, SC area! Our goal for this course is to introduce students to the world of 3D Design and Printing, using Magic for learning the basic principles of this exciting new Additive Manufacturing technology!
We have chosen to explore this area with Magic! The active participation of professional magician, Mr. Marty Shapiro (https://www.magicbymarty.com/), will ensure that this course will offer entertainment as well as a new area of learning. Magic is a combination of art, strategy and technology. When you think of 3D Design and Printing, perhaps you picture an Engineer sitting at a desk, just off the factory floor. In fact, the majority of 3D Design projects are artistic in nature, where the designer combines an objects’ function, position, color, texture, etc. to create what is referred to by software designers as a “scene.”
We plan to explore 3D Design and Additive Manufacturing utilizing Autodesks’ Fusion360TM. This is a sophisticated, cloud-based software package, widely used in Industry and free to students, aged 13 years or more. In order to take this course, each student must have access to a PC or Mac computer with a mouse, a high-speed Internet or Wi-Fi connection, and have basic Internet and computer navigation skills. A Chrome Book cannot operate Fusion 360TM.
The class includes 2-4 hours of pre-class viewing of YouTube TM instructional videos, twelve (12) hours of online instruction utilizing the ZoomTM video conferencing platform and twelve hours of breakout sessions. All students will design two or more magic tricks in teams comprising two students each. STEAM Tech Teams will 3D print the designs created by the students and deliver them via the US Postal Service, also at no cost to the students or families. Last, the students will present their creations to the remainder of the class.
By the end of the course, our goal is for each student to have accomplished the following:
Have a basic understanding of how the creative process for a project is conceived, designed, completed, checked for quality and printed.
Dear All Teachers, Parents and Students:
STEAM Tech Teams’ course, “Magic and 3D Design” is available online to students in the Greenville, SC area! Our goal for this course is to introduce students to the world of 3D Design and Printing, using Magic for learning the basic principles of this exciting new Additive Manufacturing technology!
We have chosen to explore this area with Magic! The active participation of professional magician, Mr. Marty Shapiro (https://www.magicbymarty.com/), will ensure that this course will offer entertainment as well as a new area of learning. Magic is a combination of art, strategy and technology. When you think of 3D Design and Printing, perhaps you picture an Engineer sitting at a desk, just off the factory floor. In fact, the majority of 3D Design projects are artistic in nature, where the designer combines an objects’ function, position, color, texture, etc. to create what is referred to by software designers as a “scene.”
We plan to explore 3D Design and Additive Manufacturing utilizing Autodesks’ Fusion360TM. This is a sophisticated, cloud-based software package, widely used in Industry and free to students, aged 13 years or more. In order to take this course, each student must have access to a PC or Mac computer with a mouse, a high-speed Internet or Wi-Fi connection, and have basic Internet and computer navigation skills. A Chrome Book cannot operate Fusion 360TM.
The class includes 2-4 hours of pre-class viewing of YouTube TM instructional videos, twelve (12) hours of online instruction utilizing the ZoomTM video conferencing platform and twelve hours of breakout sessions. All students will design two or more magic tricks in teams comprising two students each. STEAM Tech Teams will 3D print the designs created by the students and deliver them via the US Postal Service, also at no cost to the students or families. Last, the students will present their creations to the remainder of the class.
By the end of the course, our goal is for each student to have accomplished the following:
Have a basic understanding of how the creative process for a project is conceived, designed, completed, checked for quality and printed.
- Be able to imagine how the designed objects would work together, as well as how one would best design them for successful printing using one of a number of 3D printing technologies.The students will learn the basics of Fusion360TM; but only the basics. Our philosophy is that the student should initially learn enough “to get started,” and then, know how to research and implement new 3D Design procedures when needed. Design packages like Fusion360TM are very complex and learning everything before starting a design would be futile.
- In the process of presenting the illusion, the students will create a story around a “trick,” consider the “point of view” of the audience to hide their “method,” create a series of strategic steps to successfully implement the illusion, develop entertaining “patter” and develop ways to recover if something goes wrong. These strategies are all basic “life skills” that everyone needs to learn.
- The students will learn the basics of Fusion360TM; but only the basics. Our philosophy is that the student should initially learn enough “to get started,” and then, know how to research and implement new 3D Design procedures when needed. Design packages like Fusion360TM are very complex and learning everything before starting a design would be futile.
- In the process of presenting the illusion, the students will create a story around a “trick,” consider the “point of view” of the audience to hide their “method,” create a series of strategic steps to successfully implement the illusion, develop entertaining “patter” and develop ways to recover if something goes wrong. These strategies are all basic “life skills” that everyone needs to learn.