Quote Originally Posted by kanningphish View Post
My son has been trying to convince some of the educators at his school to get a few MakerBot printers. He wants to use it for art class to print out designs he makes on CAD. However it's also great for engineers, mathematicians, and science classes. Heck its even good for history (imagine printing out ancient buildings or statues). There are endless uses.
How old is your son? I wonder what age or grade should they start. I am starting to get my 11 y/o nephew into electronics currently. I've done a few projects with him and will eventually get him his own Printrbot. I think the 3D printer has the largest learning curve so we haven't done any 3D projects with him yet. You have to deal with hardware problems, software problems, filament problems, adjustments, calibrations, troubleshooting like crazy, etc. Then you have to learn how to model things.