3D printer XE Workshop Marketing

XE stands for Extreme Education. These are workshops where educators are taught to build and maintain a 3D printer. The course includes designing objects in FreeCAD and BlocksCAD. See FreeCAD for 3D Printing.

About

• The audience is STEAM teachers in elementary and high schools, librarians in schools, and librarians in public libraries.
• The selling point is a printer that works, and that you can fix yourself when it breaks. The positioning is that you will know how to fix it from common off-the-shelf parts - without even needing to go to us for support.
• We position this with an interest of starting design contests - the OSE Extreme Design Jams - 4 week projects where students commit to 4 weekends of good hacking. Encourage the creation of a STEAM-based club - or even elementary-school based clubs.

Open Source Microfactory Extreme Design Jams

• Campaign is set up once every 3 months to continue refining the development of OSE Fellows.
• HeroX Design Jam challenge is simultaneous and provides a reward to contributors for the Design Jam. This is live and separate from the larger HeroX for a given product. The Design Jam feeds into the larger HeroX.
• Everyone in the Design Jam votes for the winning contribution - the voting itself as an experiment in non-biased judging - where people reward others for where merit is due. Your vote is transparent, so in some way you must justify yourself if you vote for yourself based on objective performance criteria.
• Extreme Design Jams format is first - we set up the school to build the 3D Printer.
• With one or more 3D printers - the group participates in design in FreeCAD
• We use OSE Workshops to communicate progress, then migrate to a dedicated Extreme Design Jams FB page or Minds page
• We write up a design challenge on the Open Source Microfactory webpage. As much info there as possible - that is the landing page that includes a webstream from the different locations. See XD Steaming.