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Additive Manufacturing broadens our reach into communities by highlighting different manufacturing processes and skills needed in the manufacturing and defense industries today.
Formlabs is hosting a Project MFG Additive Manufacturing Competition. This competition is open to local Boston area high-school students. Teams may be made of between 1-4 students per team.
Project MFG will provide the project specs the day of the competition and students will be judged on the quality and efficiency of creating those project pieces.
Contact us at: competitions@projectmfg.com
Project MFG Competitions are based on the design, manufacturing, assembly, and testing of a “product” by teams of multi-disciplinary specialists. It is a tournament-style event in which teams of students compete against one another to complete a trade project.
The Competition Playbook
outlines the following:
On May 2nd, local high schools arrived at the TEES Facility of Advanced Manufacturing on the Texas A&M – Rellis Campus to participate in the additive Project MFG Advanced Manufacturing Competition
The event involved three local high schools — Ball High School, William B. Travis High School, and Lake Creek High School. They were challenged to design a 1:43 slot car body to fit a chassis. Teams prior to the event created a draweing for the slot car frame so they could complete the actual programming and 3D printing within the time frame. Judging criteria included arriving with the necessary designs and materials needed, ensuring proper post-processing of the car body, and testing if the race car could successfully complete a jump on the track provided.
Additionally, each team had to bring a 3D-printed bridge to the competition, which was then tested with weighted blocks to determine its load-bearing capacity. After the competition, an award ceremony was held to announce the winner who will be recieving a brand new Bambu Bambu Lab X1-Carbon Combo 3D Printer!
If you have any questions email competitions@projectmfg.com
or call (816) 200-2610 during regular business hours of 8:00am-5:00pm U.S. central time.
