Photos by Sandra Michaud
3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
Coordinator Miles Tokunow helps Lazarus McCauley work on his design
3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
Lillian Galloway sketches the basics
3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
Joshua Estrada works on a laptop as Silas Holmes and Anela Estrada look on
3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
Simone Hill removes her completed mold
3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
Matthew removes his competed project
3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
Meliani Diaz looks at MatthewG??s completed project
3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
Matthew shows his grandfather, Ernesto Gavald+?n, his finished design
3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
Miles Torkunow gets the youngsters started on the soap-making part of the workshop3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
Meliani Diaz watches the 3D printer at work on her project
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3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
Adding color and scent to the melted soap base
3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
Allie Burnquist, a facilitator with the Makerstate project holds the mold while Lazarus pours the melted soap
3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
Meliani washes out the cup to ready it for the next batch
3-D Printing Workshop held at Silver City Public Library
The youngsters decide to make purple soap this time
A group of youngsters gathered at the Silver City Public Library Friday evening to take part in a 3D Printing workshop sponsored by The New Mexico State Library's Makerstate Initiative. The workshop taught the kids how to design molds for making soap, which would then be transferred to the 3D printing machines. Their designs, for which they used a free downloadable program available at www.tinkercad.com, were then transferred to the 3D printers. The printers then used plastic strands to build the designs, which took about 25 minutes each. The workshop then moved on to the making of soap, using the molds.