{"id":5706,"date":"2018-10-26T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimakerstage.wpengine.com\/learn\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:45:27","slug":"recap-construct3d-2018-georgia-tech-atlanta-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultimaker.com\/fr\/learn\/recap-construct3d-2018-georgia-tech-atlanta-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Construct3D 2018, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recap: Construct3D 2018, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n

Earlier this month, Ultimaker participated in the second edition of the\u00a0Construct3D<\/a>\u00a0academic 3D Printing and Digital Fabrication conference. Over 250 educators, students, and industry allies converged upon\u00a0Georgia Tech<\/a>‘s campus and conference hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, October 5-8, to attend presentations, keynotes, technical workshops, panels, an expo hall, industry demos, poster sessions, and other networking opportunities. The goal: to continue to raise the level of discourse surrounding education and 3D printing in academia within K12, Higher Ed, and Informal Ed, building upon the achievements of the 2017 conference.<\/p><\/div>\n

Supporting education remains a core value for Ultimaker from the earliest days of the company. Not only does Ultimaker develop hardware, software, and materials to meet the needs of a diverse and growing worldwide education community, but we also take the additional steps to provide this community with extensive online teaching and training resources, an education-focused blog series, and participation in real-world activities like\u00a0Construct3D<\/a>.<\/p><\/section>\n

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Ultimaker continues its role as a co-founding Construct3D sponsor for the second year, along with Autodesk, Duke OIT, and Shopbot, and also contributes significant staff time and resources to help make Construct3D possible for the educators it serves.<\/p>\n

Day One<\/h2>\n

The conference weekend began on Friday with seven different academic and industry-led workshops, along with chances to tour the\u00a0Georgia Tech Invention Studio<\/a>,\u00a0 The Materials Innovation & Learning Lab, and TI Makerspace within the Interdisciplinary Design Commons. The workshops offered educators in-depth professional CAD training sessions and an introduction to the use of Drones in academic contexts.<\/p>\n

An evening kickoff event featured the first Keynote Speaker, artist and mathematician George Hart, filling the auditorium at the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute.<\/p><\/section>\n

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George Hart<\/a>\u00a0is an interdisciplinary sculptor, mathematician, computer scientist, and educator. A former research professor at Stony Brook University, Hart is a pioneer in using computer technology and 3D printing in the design and fabrication of sculpture. Examples of his artwork can be seen at M.I.T., U.C. Berkeley, Duke University, Princeton University, and Stony Brook University.<\/p>\n

As many who attended his presentation might testify, Hart is a passionate and powerful force for evangelizing the beauty and wonder of mathematics. He has inspired generations of students and learners to shed their apprehensions and prejudices at the door and step across the threshold into the vast chamber of this universal science.<\/p><\/section>\n

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Hart also introduced the\u00a0Zonodome community artwork<\/a>. The Zonodome was made possible by a collaboration with\u00a0WeTheBuilders.com<\/a>, who provided the platform our community used to crowdprint the 300+ parts produced for Hart’s Zonodome geodesic structure. Over the course of Day Two, attendees joined Hart, boxes full of 3D printed parts, and a bushel of dowel rods in the Expo hall, where they put together the structure.<\/p>\n

Day Two<\/h2>\n

The academic conference programming began in earnest early Saturday morning with the second Keynote session, presented by Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg of Nervous System.\u00a0Nervous System<\/a>\u00a0is a generative design studio in Somerville, Mass, that works at the intersection of science, art, and technology. Writing computer programs based on processes and patterns found in nature, the studio creates unique and affordable art, jewelry, and housewares.<\/p><\/section>\n

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A few of their projects, such as their\u00a0Hyphae lamps<\/a>\u00a0and naturally-draping\u00a0Kinematics Dress 3D printed garments<\/a>\u00a0pop up so frequently in articles about the future of design that they are often used as totems, synonymous with the rise in interest, from designers and audiences alike, with techniques that permit them to create in collaboration with nature and other complex and elegant natural systems. They have done much to raise interest in, and understanding of, the principles of generative design.<\/p><\/section>\n

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Day Two was also the launch of the conference Expo Hall, which featured booths and technical demos contributed from the sponsors and exhibitors that made Construct3D 2018 possible. See the conference site for the full list of the 2018 sponsors and exhibitors.<\/p><\/section>\n

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Ultimaker was among these vendors included, contributing a number of Ultimaker printers for the use of the conference presenters as well as introducing the Ultimaker S5 to many educators and educational institutions for the first time.\u00a0Clemson professor Insun Kwon<\/a>\u00a0returned for the second year to display his intricate designs at the Ultimaker booth, sharing details and techniques he has developed for fabricating his challenging, high-resolution digitally sculpted models using affordable desktop 3D printing technologies, and this time bring work from several of his promising students, executing in a similar fashion using Ultimaker printers.<\/p>\n

2018 Conference program<\/h2>\n

After the conference, we created a tally of the broad topics covered by the programming this year. Here is an overview of the 2018 Construct3D conference topics:<\/p><\/section>\n

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The academic sessions for the conference each year are reviewed and accepted by the programming committees for Higher Ed, K12, and Informal Education. \u00ab\u00a0Thanks to a large number of submissions this year we were able to be more selective,\u00a0\u00bb says conference programming chair Lizabeth Arum. \u00ab\u00a0As a result, the quality of the programming across the board was even stronger than last year.\u00a0\u00bb Amit Jariwala, Director of Design & Innovation in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, and this year’s conference co-host, also praised the strength and diversity of the programming, saying: \u00ab\u00a0We, at Georgia Tech, were very excited to have such a wide spectrum of passionate educators and makers attend the campus for the conference’s second year.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><\/section>\n

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Over 86 academic sessions, workshops, panels, and networking activities filled the weekend to the brim. In addition to the excellent programming contributed from K12, Informal, and Higher Education from around the country, this year’s conference also included the following ten Featured Speakers:<\/p>\n