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LINCOLN DAILY NEWS MARCH 1, 2017
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Moving to the next wall is a large, 75” interactive
display that closely resembles a flat screen television
but is in reality hooked up to a PC that has CAD
software (used often by architects and engineers)
pre-loaded.
As students create their own designs, they are able
to manipulate the objects by mathematical distances
and by geometric relationships before sending the
object to a 3-D printer next to it.
Finally, a table of obsolete desktop computers
and laptops with Windows XP (or older systems)
mark the “tinkering station,” where students are
encouraged to tinker by taking apart and putting