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Rotarian Kim Brand Promotes interest in technology and engineering among students

By on June 6, 2014

Business owner Kim Brand posed a question to a crowd of mostly elderly listeners.

“They all laughed when I said, ‘How many of you took shop classes?’ They all raised their hands,” Brand said. “I said, ‘How many of you have grandkids who are in shop classes?’ Nobody raised their hands. Nobody. We’ve abandoned what I think is a sort of deep, DNA capacity to tinker.”

Brand’s Indianapolis-based company, 3D Parts Manufacturing, responded to a lack of interest in engineering and manufacturing by working with Indianapolis area teachers to incorporate 3D printers into classroom lessons as a way to promote interest in technology and engineering among students.

Read the full article on IBJ, here.

Kim Brand will be our Tuesday Program on June 17, 2014

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