Molly Perez, a 3rd-grader at New Haven Elementary (Boone County), plays with a plasma globe at the first World Maker and Inventor Expo at Boone County High School.
Photo by Bobby Ellis, April 23, 2016
By Brenna R. Kelly
Brenna.kelly@education.ky.gov
On a recent morning, two high school students watched as they were recreated as brightly colored plastic forms.
The students, interns at the NKY MakerSpace, had scanned each other and then programmed a 3-D printer to sculpt miniature busts of themselves.
The project was just one of thousands that students from across Northern Kentucky have created since NKY MakerSpace – which was designed to allow students, teachers, parents and community members to explore and create with science, technology, engineering, arts and math – opened in April 2015.
The makerspace was the result of a collaboration between the Boone County school…
