News for North Texas

Tarrant County Kids Dream It, Then 3D Print It

Keith Reinhart

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.

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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.