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Tarrant County Kids Dream It, Then 3D Print It

Keith Reinhart
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City of Saginaw

Saginaw teenagers got to see the virtual become the physical in 3D this past weekend. As we told you a earlier this month, the tiny Tarrant County library is the first in the state to get its own 3D printer, thanks to a tech grant. Seven lucky kids got to “print” their creations, which included a Transformers mask, a UFO and the Avengers’ logo.

The Saginaw library has stocked up on books about 3D printing, scanning and imaging software. Each week librarians will hold a drawing and a teen who submits an entry will have their object printed over the weekend.

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.