City X Project Establishes First Regional Partner in Singapore

Guest Posting by Matthew Straub, Communications Director of the City X Project

We at the City X Project – a 3D printing and design thinking workshop for kids sponsored by 3D Systems – are quite excited to announce that we’ve established our first regional partner in the city-state of Singapore. Our parent organization, IDEAco, now recognizes the educational development organization Clanworks as Singapore’s regional for-profit partner for bringing the City X Project curriculum in Singapore.

The City X Project design thinking toolkit for teachers will still be absolutely free for educators around the world. Our partnership with Clanworks is part of a broader initiative to professionally train regional partners around the world on the ins and outs of teaching 8-12 year-old kids design thinking and creative problem solving in the context of our story-based curriculum.

When members of our team travel to train a regional partner, we’re able to go far beyond explaining the goals and ideas behind the City X Project in person. We’re able to relay teaching tips, share details about our experiences, answer questions, and, of course, facilitate or provide feedback on a workshop locally. This enables our partners to continue to facilitate the City X Project workshop locally, whether for profit or not. As an ever-improving workshop, it also allows us to test and collect feedback of our curriculum in a greater variety of educational, geographic, and cultural contexts.

This approach to licensing the curriculum around the United States and abroad is an avenue to empower as many kids as possible with the tools and processes necessary to make, solve problems, and get their hands on 3D modeling and 3D printing technologies.

We couldn’t be happier to have local representation in Southeast Asia. We want to reach and empower as many kids as possible with 3D printing and lessons in creative problem solving. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you’d like to learn more about licensing the City X Project locally and becoming a certified regional partner!

by Saskia via Cubify