Photos by Sandra Michaud
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A group of youngsters gathered at the Silver City Public Library Friday evening to take part in a 3D Printing workshop sponsored by The New Mexico State Library’s Makerstate Initiative. The workshop taught the kids how to design molds for making soap, which would then be transferred to the 3D printing machines. Their designs, for which they used a free downloadable program available at www.tinkercad.com, were then transferred to the 3D printers. The printers then used plastic strands to build the designs, which took about 25 minutes each. The workshop then moved on to the making of soap, using the molds.