A Message from the Computer Information Systems Class - Grades 11/12

Dear Parents:

3D printing has become a widely used manufacturing method to produce objects that cannot be made by hand or using traditional methods. Increasing productivity, reducing waste, improving efficiency, and saving the cost, 3D printing has gradually become a replacement of traditional manufacturing methods (e.g. direct injection molding, numerical controlled cutting). Accordingly, the ICTS-11/12 would like U-Hill to have 3D printing technology.

The 3D printers would be used by a wide variety of students in different ways.

Business & Computers Department: • Learn 3D computer modeling by letting students print out model of what they made. • Potential for printing items for sale to develop entrepreneurship.

Tech Department: • Print out specific parts of custom tech projects. • Often faster than carving out the material yourself and more precise.

Art Department: • Create sculptures or parts of a statue precisely and with less waste. • Increases the quality of creations that students could make. • Students can learn how to create art digitally.

Science Department: • Creating custom labs / scale models of molecules, organs, organisms, etc.

In order to enable class printing and satisfy extra-curricular use, we propose to buy three Ultimaker 2+ printers, which have the highest printing resolution, operational speed and build volume. Using this combination, small objects with fine details can be printed for a class of 30 students in the maximum printing quality within 12 hours. (More details about the Ultimaker 2+ are available in the PowerPoint presentation below.)

We gave a presentation to the PAC at their February meeting and they have agreed to help us with our fundraising for these printers. After consulting with the retailer, we were offered a 5% educational discount for each printer and three free rolls of filament. With the education discount, including shipment fee, replacement parts and a good graphic computer for file processing, our final costs are CA$ 12,200. Our goal is to make our purchase as soon as possible so that the printers will benefit our school community this school year.

Please consider making a donation to our program to help bring 3D printers to our school. If you have questions, please view the PowerPoint presentation and video below or contact the following people:
Victor Guan: victorkwan1@gmail.com
David Boguslavsky: dadvidboguslavsky@gmail.com
Alex Yu: alexyu1999126@gmail.com

Here's a presentation showing our plan for using the 3D printers:




Here's a demonstration video filmed by Victor Guan:


亲爱的家长们:

3D 打印已成为一种广泛使用的制造方法，能用于无法用手工且传统方法制造的物件。提升生产率，减少耗费，提高效率，节省成本，3D打印已将成为众多传统加工方法（无需事先制作模具，手工，数控切割）的取代。因此，我们 ICTS-11/12 提议U-Hill中学购买3D打印机。


3D打印机将以各种方式便利不同的学生：

计算机与商业系：

 •能很快实现学生的构思，打印出自己设计的3D图形。

 •学生能够提升且卖出自己设计的产品，培养商业技能。


科技系:

• 能让学生3D打印出自己设计的配件。

 •通常比手工更精准，更省时，省精力。

美术系:

• 供学生创造立体艺术品。

• 提升学生作品质量。

•供学生学习如何将3D作图技术应用于美术中。

科学系:

 • 可打印出物理作业，某些化学实验用具，生物演示模型。

为了让班上的每一个学生都有机会使用该科技，且满足课外活动需求，我们提倡议买三台Ultimaker 2+ 打印机，是打印速度最快，打印质量最高，打印容量最大，性价比最高的3D打印机。这样，能满足给一个班，30名学生打印成品，耗时少于12小时。（更多详细信息请浏览下面的“使用计划”）。

我们已在二月份的PAC会议做了ppt展示，打印样本展示，PAC已同意帮助我们筹款购买这些打印机。与Ultimaker代理商协商后，我们又获得了95折优惠，且免费赠送3圈3D原材料。折扣后，加上邮寄费，政府税，备用零件，一个能满足我们需要的计算机，我们的最终预算为$12,200加币。我们的目标是想让学校尽早购买，以让3D打印技术于这学年效益于学校。

•请考虑为我们的方案进行捐款，如果有问题，欢迎咨询负责人，

Victor Guan: victorkwan1@gmail.com

Alex Yu: alexyu1999126@gmail.com


这是我们的3D打印机使用计划：



这是Victor录制的演示视频: