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there's a cool new 3d printer on board

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the international space station and

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students here on the ground are able to

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get involved with exactly how it's used

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we've got at the nasa payload operations

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integration center at marshall space

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flight center

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bill hubsher on hand to tell us more

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bill

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thanks very much brandi as astronauts

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travel further into space the ability to

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3d print tools and equipment that they

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need right then is absolutely essential

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while students with the future engineers

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program are being challenged to decide

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what they would print in space our

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laurie meigs caught up with deanne bell

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future engineers is an online platform

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it's a website futureengineers.org and

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we're hosting the first ever 3d printing

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and space challenge

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a partnership between the american

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society mechanical engineers foundation

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and nasa and we're challenging k-12

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students in the u.s to design 3d models

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for space and the winning student will

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have their design 3d printed on the

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space station and they'll also get a

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trip to huntsville where they can see it

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printed live at payload operations

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center for folks who don't know what a

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3d printer is what are we talking about

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here so 3d printing technology is

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becoming all the buzz and pop culture

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for engineers it's been around for quite

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some time but the basic 3d printers that

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you see in consumer markets it's almost

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like a glue gun that lays down plastic

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layer by layer by layer and they're part

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they're starting to pop up in classrooms

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and in libraries and maker spaces and so

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we want to take this the excitement of

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3d printing in space and bring it into

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the education community and give

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students a challenge that challenges

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them to solve real world problems you

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know we're not going to print toys in

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space we're going to actually encourage

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them to to be the future workforce to be

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those that are designing models that can

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actually be used um as different

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implements up in space how can students

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get involved right

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so our first challenge launches soon and

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uh you can go to futureengineers.org

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and you can sign in you sign in for your

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age group we have two age groups we have

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13 and above and below 13 and there's

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different prizes for the different age

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groups and on the site there's all kinds

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of awesome science lessons and media

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content and and information to help you

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get started we realize making a 3d model

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isn't necessarily something you just do

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immediately but we're here to help you

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out and and to to get students all up to

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speed on how to take their ideas and

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make it into a 3d printed reality in

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their hands how did this idea come about

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so this idea came about uh it's it's a

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bit of a brain child between myself and

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nikki werkheiser who's the 3d print

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program manager in huntsville

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we both are really passionate about

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extending what nasa research what what

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research is being done at nasa to the

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general population and to the future

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workforce you know when you look at the

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3d printing and space program the zero g

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technology demonstration that's going up

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it's about the hardware it's about

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proving the capabilities but this is has

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a slightly different mission because

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future engineers is about empowering the

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future workforce that's going to use

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that 3d printer and whether it's on the

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space station or our future astronauts

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that go to mars they're going to have to

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be able to manufacture in space to solve

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problems and to innovate on the spot so

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is this for students teachers or both

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so the first future engineers challenge

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is it's for individuals so individuals

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can go online to the site they can

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register

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you know if they're below a certain age

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we automate that to the parents so

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everyone knows that they're involved in

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participating but it's really aimed at

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the greater education community as a

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whole we encourage teachers to bring

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these challenges into the classrooms we

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encourage after-school programs to bring

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these challenges into their after-school

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computer labs and their stem and their

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steam resource labs so it's really aimed

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at a broader goal but individually each

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student submits their design that they

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make themselves all on their own and the

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winning one gets printed on the space

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station

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as deanne mentioned the winners of this

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challenge will get a chance to visit us

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here at the marshall space flight center

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and tour the payload operations

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integration center so again if someone

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you know or yourself would like to get

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involved in the challenge you have until

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december the 15th to go to

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futureengineers.org and enter that's it

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for us at the payload operations