Outreaching at Perkins School
Tech Meets Touch:
Crafting Braille Trophies for Perkins School
By Grade 6, our students' previous tech service work has prepared them with technical and project management skills to have a larger impact on their community. They are tasked with designing and fabricating a 3D object to solve a problem experienced by a classroom teacher or other adult in our community. In order to do this work, they have access to 5 Prusa 3D printers (for plastic fabrication) and a Glowforge laser cutter (for cutting and engraving wood, acrylic, and other materials). Many projects involve replacing missing or broken pieces of important classroom materials, which enables teachers to revive previously unusable works and save considerable replacement costs. Other projects give teachers original objects for use in their rooms. We have also collaborated with the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown to create tactile puzzles for young pre-Braille learners and customized trophies with Braille plaques for their IDEA awards.
For more information, including requests
for copies of our 3D Designs, contact: techforgood@wellan.org