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National Blue Ribbon School Built Nation’s First Fab Lab

August 16, 2016
fab lab engineering
Students gather digital data for 3-D printing

Retired engineer Dale Johnson realized his mission to introduce students to engineering in his town of Mahtomedi, Minnesota, when local interest, energy, and funding culminated in the first Fab Lab (3-D Fabrication Laboratory) to be built in a US public school.

In this latest National Blue Ribbon school site visit video, Mahtomedi High School Principal Kathe Nickleby and other teachers and students describe the engineering program and the benefits of learning the engineering process.

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