The Boston Children’s Museum Tech Kitchen is a new innovative place to meet inventors, innovators and high-tech makers as they showcase their latest fun Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEM/STEAM) applications. On Sunday May 8, from 2pm – 4pm The Tech Kitchen will host, 3D Modeling and Design with SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids workshop at the Children’s Museum in Boston, MA, USA. You must register here to attend. If you are in the Boston area, you can visit the museum and let your
Celebrated for the first time on April 22, 1970 under the leadership of Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson who wanted to educate his students about the environment, Earth Day annually marks the anniversary of this environmental movement that has been so inspirational. We, at Dassault Systèmes, pay a great attention to the Earth and the environment in general and it is important for us to celebrate Earth Day the way it deserves. Indeed, sustainability is at the heart of Dassault Systèmes’ Corporate
I was fortunate to be the keynote at the SolidProfessor Virtual Education Summit. Now I want to share with all educators some topics to help you prepare for the upcoming semester. SOLIDWORKS Student Access Licenses Qualified schools with SOLIDWORKS subscription can provide their students individual licenses of SOLIDWORKS Student Access. Students can install SOLIDWORKS on their own home computers.
In an attempt to lessen the impact of COVID-19, many countries around the world are closing their schools. This opens a host of complications for teachers. What is the best way to educate remotely? How can you engage students digitally, when they’re at home?
These days, it’s not enough to just tell children that STEAM topics are important—you have to show how science, technology, engineering, art, and math can all interconnect to create something fun. “It shouldn’t be a chore,” says STEAM advocate and founder of The STEAM Connection Danielle Boyer. “It should be really exciting.” Over the summer, Danielle created the Engineering Design Club in her hometown of Troy, Michigan, and used SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids to make learning STEAM more enjoyable.
PART TWO: Using Apps for Kids Classroom and Tips Michael Steeves is a Senior Product Introduction Manager at SOLIDWORKS who volunteers to teach an after school enrichment class at his daughter’s elementary school. He utilizes Apps for Kids Classroom to teach the students about 3D modeling, printing, and more. Meet Michael and follow along with his popular bridge lesson in Part One. Apps for Kids Classroom is a powerful teaching tool for many reasons.
Publicly sharing your incredible model in Apps For Kids is easy! In today’s video, we will learn how to share your project with other users in the community. The Apps For Kids admin may choose your project for the Featured Projects gallery on the Apps For Kids website! Check out our blog for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos.
PART ONE: Bridge Lesson Michael Steeves had a simple desire: get involved with his local community. His eldest daughter just started kindergarten, and he wanted a way to connect with her and other kids. His daughter’s elementary school had an after school enrichment program packed with activities, all sorts of sports, dance classes, music lessons, art, tech classes where students learned how to use programming through Scratch. But there was nothing that taught 3D design.
No access to a 3D printer? No problem! There are so many fun ways to 2D pictures of your creation. You can print out a picture of your model with its Style It background, a color by numbers picture to draw on, or a fun cube print that mimics a 3D print.
Sometimes your designs may look completely ready for 3D printing, but when you open them in the Print It app you find they’re orientated at an awkward angle. Never fear! In today’s lesson, we’ll learn how to easily fix the orientation of our prints. Check out our blog throughout the summer for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos.
You’ve mastered the other apps in Apps for Kids. You’ve created incredible 3D models in Shape It. Now there’s one thing left to do: Print It! Using the Print It app to 3D print creations in a breeze.
Creating stickers is one of the the most fun things you can do in Capture It! Today we’ll learn how to draw images, turn them into stickers, and then add them to our 3D models! Check out our blog throughout the summer for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
On a sunny day in June, students at The Meadowbrook School in Weston, MA, were treated to a fun and exciting crash course in 3D modeling. SOLIDWORKS intern Lucas Saden taught two classes of 6th graders how to use the SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids Classroom interface to create keychains with their initials. I joined him as a teaching assistant. Classroom is an interface in Apps for Kids where educators can organize private, self-contained classes.
Sometimes you add an image to Capture It and it ends up being the wrong size or angle. Maybe you want to copy that image? Maybe you want to delete it? With Capture It, it’s all an easy click away.
One of the best ways to express yourself in Capture It is to edit text size, color, and font. How will you make your words pop? Check out our blog throughout the summer for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
Adding images, stickers, and text in Capture It is fun and exciting, but sometimes you need to get organized! Today we’re going to learn how to order layers, bring content forward, or move content backwards. Check out our blog throughout the summer for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
With Mech It, you can use colors and mechanisms to create fun patterns, and change the patterns with small, simple adjustments. What kinds of patterns will you make? Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
Some of the coolest mechanisms look like real life objects. Today we’re going to learn how to create shapes that connect together and move just like a finger! Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
In SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids, you can create mechanisms that can draw picture for you! Today we’re going to learn about using markers in Mech It to create a smiley face and the planet Saturn–what other drawings will you make? Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
Now that we’ve seen how the components of Mech It work, it’s time to put them all together! Today we’ll learn how to make a 4 bar linkage, a great starting point for amazing creations! Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos. To create your own Apps for Kids account, register now at: www.swappsforkids.com.
Danielle Boyer at SOLIDWORKS World 2019 Danielle Boyer at SOLIDWORKS World 2019 Danielle Boyer is a STEAM advocate and SOLIDWORKS user. Read her story from the beginning in part one and part two. Considering everything she does, it’s hard to believe Danielle Boyer is eighteen; she’s is currently in the middle of a gap year between high school and college, which she took specifically so she could continue her work with FIRST teams, students, and the under served communities in and around Detroit,
Summer’s almost here and the time to Mech It is upon is! We’re back with more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How-To’s, and today we’re learning all about making things move! Once you add a motor to your Mech It design, playing the motion is a snap! Check out our blog throughout the spring for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos.
Danielle presenting at EMSWUG Danielle presenting at EMSWUG Danielle Boyer is a STEAM advocate and SOLIDWORKS user. Learn more about her student journey in part one. When we last spoke for her SOLIDWORKS Women in Engineering feature, Danielle Boyer told me about her FIRST Robotics Competition team’s special project. Team 4384, Benzene Bots, created Every Kid Gets A Robot, a low-cost alternative to the Lego Mindstorms kits used by FIRST Lego League teams.
Danielle Boyer Danielle Boyer Danielle Boyer taught her first STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) class when she was ten years old. After she found a pack of animal puppets while shopping, Danielle put together a short curriculum for a kindergarten-level animal science class. “I made the coloring sheets myself, I taught the kids, I read to them, I had activities planned,” she recalled, laughing. “Once I remembered that class, I realized I’ve been doing this a lot longer than
