TechShop Inside - Powered By Fujitsu Launches Mobile Maker Space

3D printing education is increasingly important in today's STEM curricula featuring in schools. Many school systems, however, lack the funding to provide students 3D printers to work on. TechShop Inc. and Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories of America have now teamed up to widen the availability of 3D printing to students. By putting the technology in a trailer, the brand new TechShop Inside! initiative can travel to potentially thousands of students every year. The trailer -- stocked with 3D printers, Fujitsu LIFEBOOK Tablet PCs, laser cutters, and other tools -- brings a mobile makerspace to schools. It was launched on Friday in Napa, California, and will travel next to Bay Area organizations. Check out more details: http://3dprint.com/29056/techshop-inside-fujitsu/ ‎

Check out the TechShop mobile maker space trailer below. Let us know if you have seen it rolling through your neighborhood!

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They don't say what this costs to schools. TechShops might be the US's most expensive maker spaces going by membership fees, machine usage fees and material fees. I looked at those fees and it seems pretty discouraging.

I wonder if this is a bandaid solution. Various political education mandates and initiatives have pushed out shop classes of all kinds. Granted, budget pressures sure helped too.