3-SPACE at the University of North Carolina Greensboro

3-SPACE at the University of North Carolina Greensboro

This week the JMU 3-SPACE classroom and the JMU MakerLab were featured in the Helen Barton Lecture Series in Computational Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UNC Greensboro. In the talk “Making mathematics real: Knot theory,...
Mercer Middle School at 3-SPACE, round 2!

Mercer Middle School at 3-SPACE, round 2!

This week a second group from Mercer Middle School came to visit JMU 3-SPACE.  Great questions and a lively group once again! P.S. For those of you who had 3D-printing Minecraft questions, here are some links to help you out: How to use Printcraft to export from...
3-SPACE at JMU Academic Open House

3-SPACE at JMU Academic Open House

When JMU rolls out the bling for prospective students, you know that the 3D printers have to come out! This weekend we brought one of the Afinias and a lot of 3D-printed models to the JMU Academic Open House for the College of Science and Mathematics. For lots of...
Mercer Middle School visit to JMU 3-SPACE

Mercer Middle School visit to JMU 3-SPACE

Today the JMU 3-SPACE classroom was visited by a group of 6th-graders from Mercer Middle School in Loudon County, Virginia. We had a great time showing the students how the printers work, what 3D printing can be used for, and how they can make their own models...
3-SPACE at the MD/DC/VA MAA Fall Meeting

3-SPACE at the MD/DC/VA MAA Fall Meeting

Later this week we’ll be bringing a printer and a bag of mathematical prints to a contributed talk at the Fall Sectional Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America for Maryland/DC/Virginia, held jointly at Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood University...
JMU MakerLab meetings at 3-SPACE

JMU MakerLab meetings at 3-SPACE

Since the JMU MakerLab consists of three 3d-printers, two computers, and lots of tools set up in a supply closet in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, until now we didn’t have enough room there to hold group meetings of our 13-member MakerLab team....