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Design Engine community project<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n

In September, the Ultimaker North American Community Team released The Design Engine, a card game to provoke, inspire, and entertain students, educators, 3D designers, artists, and engineers of all experience levels. The game, which can be played as a handy icebreaker or as a challenging activity sparking creativity over a period of time, is meant to be used to generate new projects and fuel a deeper exploration into the use of desktop 3D printers. Since its release, the game has been used in many classrooms and with many students. Now we want to challenge educators and students to help evolve the game.<\/p><\/div>\n

You’ve read about the launch of the Design Engine, you’ve seen and maybe worked on solutions for the eight challenges issued during September and October, and you’ve heard about the winners of the Design Engine challenge. Now we’re opening up the Design Engine to the community. We want to see how you’re using or modifying the game with your students, and we want to incorporate your ideas into the next edition.<\/p>\n

The Design Engine was specifically created to address educator requests for tools to help students create original works from their own imagination and to help motivate them through the process of mastering desktop 3D printing. While the starter pack includes instructions for several common approaches for how to use the cards in an educational context, the Ultimaker team always anticipated that the uses and \u201cflavors of play\u201d would vary greatly depending on the specific aims of the participants.<\/p><\/section>\n

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Original “flavors of play”<\/div><\/div>\n
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Modifications<\/h2>\n

What we love about the game is its flexibility, and how you can use it in very different contexts. For example, in October, the Ultimaker North American community team took the game to the MET for the\u00a0Teens Take the MET<\/b>\u00a0event. We ran quick three-minute icebreaker challenges with the deck and then sent students out on\u00a0postcard missions<\/b>, where in addition to assigning a parameter to one of four challenges (Hybridize!, Project Runway, Lamp that, and A legend is born…), we added a MET gallery as the second element to consider:<\/p><\/section>\n

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Icebreaker Worksheet<\/div><\/div>\n
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Pioneer Allison Milgrom volunteering at MET<\/div><\/div>\n

Teachers who are using the Design Engine<\/h3>\n