GE selects more than 400 schools to receive 3-D printers

More than 400 schools will receive 3-D printers as a part of the GE Additive Education Program, reaching more than 180,000 students around the globe. Committed to developing pipelines of future talent in additive manufacturing, Cincinnati-based GE will send a desktop polymer printer package to about 400 primary and secondary schools and a metal printing machine to eight colleges and universities.

In addition to polymer printers, primary and secondary schools will receive Polar 3D’s STEAMtrax curriculum, the STEAMtrax module kit “Tinkering with Turbines,” and six rolls of filament for each printer.

The following eight schools will receive a $250,000 Concept Laser MLAB cusing 100R metal printing machine:

• Auburn University
• Boston University
• Iowa State University
• North Carolina State University
• Ohio State University
• University of Cincinnati
• University of New South Wales
• U.S. Naval Academy