New Matter MOD-t
New Matter MOD-t desktop 3D printer
Desktop 3D printing company, New Matter is to install a number of MOD-t 3D printers at a science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education organisation.
Challenger Center, the American STEM institute partnering with New Matter, is to welcome 15 of the desktop machines and spread them out across three, as yet, unannounced locations. The selected centres, which will be announced in the coming weeks, will each receive five MOD-t printers. Challenger Center has a network of 43 facilities across the United States and serves more than 250,000 students every year.
The MOD-t was launched back in 2014 specifically as a 3D printing option specifically for the educational market. It uses Fused Filament Fabrication technology, and has a build envelope of 150x100x125mm. Since the printer’s introduction to the 3D printing market, New Matter has been committed to serving the educational sector.
Through a New Matter competition, Challenger Center was required to submit proposals detailing how its facilities would use the desktop platforms. The educational organisation has revealed its pledge to utilise the MOD-ts in newly created makerspaces, the development of 3D printing and summer camps, and even incorporate them into simulated space missions, like Expedition Mars.
New Matter MOD-t 3D printer.
New Matter’s hierarchy was impressed with the broad range of creative, forward-thinking ideas to come from Challenger Center. Meanwhile, Challenger Center is looking forward to engaging its students and teachers alike with the latest 3D technology.
“New Matter is a natural partner for Challenger Center and we’re excited to being our work together,” said Lance Bush, Challenger Center President and Chief Executive Officer. “We share a commitment to providing innovative, hands-on experiences that spark a passion for learning in students. The MOD-t was developed and designed for teachers and students and we’re eager to see our Challenger Learning Center educators implement these remarkably easy-to-use and elegant printers into programs with their local students.”
Steve Schell, Co-Founder of New Matter adds: “At New Matter, our mission is to use 3D printing to bridge the digital and physical worlds, and we’re thrilled to begin our partnership with Challenger Center. Educational environments are the ideal settings for the MOD-t and we’re pleased that tens of thousands of students and their teachers will soon be able to go deeper into space – to Mars and beyond – and the widely accepted understanding that 3D printing will be key to that exploration, we’re also especially proud that New Matter will play a role in those missions by helping to shape the young minds that will eventually lead them.”
