Teachers save $2500 on ShopBot Desktops for your classroom

[Michael Berliner]

Calling all teachers! As of today, Jan. 21, 2013, there are only 35 of 50 ShopBot Desktops still available as part of the limited-time, Digital Fab Tools for Schools promotion. Working with Autodesk, we're providing a $2500 Voucher toward purchase of a ShopBot Desktop CNC router along with Autodesk 123D Design Software for your school or other educational program.

That's a significant savings from the standard pricing. You can order a Desktop with router or industrial spindle. Check out the details and get your Voucher at www.100kSchools.org. Act quick - they are moving fast

[myxpykalix]

I might have missed this info but can you tell me the specific "school" requirements needed to qualify for this discount?

We have a local Technical education Center here and along with public access television this might be a good kickstart for a class in both the computer end but the manufacturing end of their creation process.
But there are probably certain criteria for qualification that i'd like to find out about?

[tonydude919]

http://www.100kschools.org/voucher-info.php

[myxpykalix]

What i was looking for was what criteria they use to qualify an institution as a "school" for their purposes. Why I ask is we have a Technical Education center here and i'm looking at teaching a course thru them but I don't know whether they have the funds for this machine right now (don't know their budgeting process) or whether I might have to help get it financed, or whether that makes a difference?

[Hoytbasses]

Thank goodness I saw the e-mail for this offer: I jumped on it (I've been bugging my principal for about 3 years to get a CNC machine) and thankfully we found the $$ to get the router equipped desktop.

...should be arriving this week. you can expect a flurry of dumb beginner questions by the following week, but I'm very psyched about this(as is my students)

Karl Hoyt
Nauset Regional High School
Cape Cod, Ma.

[gsartor_1999]

This forum is great for beginner questions but many of the people have larger format machines. I have had one in my school for about a year now (middle school) and I learn something every time I use it!

Recently I discovered the amazing benefits of the "plotter pen" from "widget works". It is an awesome way to work out a lot of kinks without wasting material. It also makes hold down a non issue-I just clamp down a board and tape the paper to the board with masking tape. It is spring loaded so the tolerances are not as critical and you can play around with design/placement/etc with a fairly quick result. I also figured out that it is easy to scavenge parts (tips) from larger sharpies which are more readily available than the short ones that come with the bit. I mashed a few tips in the learning process but you can just pry them out of the sharpie barrel.

I keep thinking I need to document this process so I can share on this forum. Maybe this will inspire me to post more photos more often. Have fun!