3D printing workshops for kids — what do they look like and what do they teach?

For years we’ve been passing on valuable spatial design skills to children and teenagers. During 3D printing workshops for kids we share hands-on knowledge of 3D printing and scanning — and make sure everyone has a great time. This is how we help the youngest participants develop imagination and manual skills. 3D printing classes are a solid head start: this innovative technology has already become a well-paid profession.

The Cybroskill team actually grew out of workshops like these: before our online mentoring platform existed, the brand’s founder ran hundreds of hours of in-person classes — from science shows, through one-off workshops, to 3D pen sessions — and equipped around 20 schools under Poland’s “Laboratories of the Future” programme.

Computer-lab 3D printing workshops for school children

3D printing classes introduce the basics of spatial design and its practical applications. They’re a great way to spend free time creatively and to make unique objects of your own, such as a bookmark, a keychain or a pencil topper.

Every participant gets access to professional software for printing 3D objects. We also demonstrate a 3D scanner, watching together as a digital model of a person takes shape. Workshops run in a computer lab in groups of ten.

Participants have all the equipment they need: a 3D printer, a 3D scanner and materials. An extra highlight is the gallery of prints — nothing fires the imagination like a helmet with moving parts you can pick up and hold.

One-off 3D printing workshops

Step by step, we lead children and teenagers into the world of spatial design, using specialist software and live 3D printing. From experience we know that valuable knowledge travels best with great fun. Participants follow every stage of the process, picking up priceless manual skills along the way. It’s an innovative approach to education that genuinely gets young people interested in modern technology.

Group workshops vs 1-on-1 mentoring — which to choose?

A workshop is a great spark: your child sees the technology, touches the prints and finds out whether the topic excites them. But it has natural limits we know from our own practice:

• the group sets the pace — the most able get bored, and the shy ones never get to ask;
• one project for everyone — hard to make a keychain themed on your favourite game when the script is shared by ten people;
• no continuity — after two hours a memory remains, but rarely a skill.

Cybroskill was born precisely from these observations: we took what’s best about workshops (a project, a physical result, fun) and moved it into 1-on-1 online mentoring, where the pace and topics are matched to one specific child — and projects that get started get finished. The statistics are merciless: 87% of people abandon self-paced courses; regular work with a mentor is our way of making sure your child is in the remaining 13%.

If your child has already been to a workshop and “caught the bug” — this is the best moment for the next step. The 3D printing path starts exactly where workshops end: with their first own project, which arrives home printed. Book a starter lesson today and invest in your child’s future.