OSE Clubs
OSE Clubs
Professional development involves a 2 or 3 day program and is geared to educators and librarians. The 2 day program involves a build of a 3D printer on Day 1 that the educator keeps for their school or library. The second day involves learning how to do 3D design to generate files for 3D printing, which qualifies the educator to get involved in OSE prototyping and design work.
The 3 day program is designed for educators who want to get involved in OSE development. We teach Collaborative Literacy - how to engage in a global, collaborative, parallel development process for the common good. As such, educators can get involved in a larger program on design that matters.
The ideal outcome of the 3 day immersion is staring an OSE Club. Clubs get ongoing support from OSE for ongoing development - and participation in quarterly incentive design challenges where the goal is to develop an economically significant product every quarter. As such, the OSE Club has an entrepreneurial component - towards bringing production back to the community level - by teaching about open source design and collaboratively-developed, free enterprise. 3 day training like this qualifies the educator to be a mentor/advisor of the OSE Club. The goal is have many venues worldwide that engage in rapid parallel development - a public engineering effort. Because we teach entry level skills, use readily accessible open source software tools, and develop part libraries that people can build upon - we can engage a large audience of nonspecialists in meaningful work.
For example - a cordless drill, aerial drone, different CNC machines, Raspberry Pi cell phone - as well as simple things such as 3D printed pens or 3D printed rubber mallet - these are all things that can be made with the open source microfactory 3D printer, laser cutter, and CNC circuit mill.
The cost structure for the 2 day continuing professional education is $1400 2 days - and $2000 for the 3 day program. This would be per team of 2 educators to build a printer to keep with them. The 2 day program is more for professional education. The 3 day program is also professional education - but adds the dimension of meaningful involvement with OSE.
The promise of the teacher/advisor training would be to increase involvement with design that matters. We could offer other microfactory tools - see options at https://microfactory.opensourceecology.org/workshops/. We would do ongoing development with quarterly product release schedules - which means that teachers are incentivized to do something much bigger than what they do in their own school - by becoming involved in important world work. We have the benefit of a construction set approach. For example, our Universal Axis is a robotics construction set - and can be scaled from rods that are 8 mm to 1" to 3". Imagine kids beginning to build heavy duty machining tools.
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