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Report: Chinese Government Plans To Put 3D Printers In All Elementary Schools
InfiniteZero writes The Chinese government has a new plan to install a 3D printer in each of its approximately 400,000 elementary schools over the next two years. Education is probably one of the areas that will benefit the most from 3D printers in the long run. The problem though is getting the machines into the schools in the first place. With prices generally ranging from $400 to $3,000 for typical desktop 3D printers, they are not cheap, and with budgets within many school districts running dry, both in the United States and overseas, the unfortunate fact is that many schools simply can’t afford them, not to mention the materials and time it takes to train teachers to use them.
I'm an absolute expert at photoshop and I know HTML design inside and outside. I'm a pro 3D landscape designer for my work and last time I tried a 3D modeling program, I couldn't make heads or tails of it. After hours I gave up, having barely made a peanut shape. If I can't do it, I don't think elementary children and their teachers can. They could simply download premade 3d models but that's not usually the point of doing it in schools.