As part of Take Our Kids to Work Day 2016, the student participants designed the world's greatest summer camp. Before we get to the summer camp idea, we'll review the day and what the kids did to get into the proper frame of mind for designing a summer camp. This is also helpful for parents and teachers who may want to introduce their kids to some of these concepts in a quick and easy way.
We started off with visual introductions and then watched the latest Autodesk Showreel that exhibits the great work of our customers.
From there we jumped right into Tinkercad to give everyone a taste for digital design. The beautiful thing about Tinkercad is that it works as a gateway to so many of Autodesk's products and industries. The workflows one learns in Tinkercad are transferable to Maya for film and games, to Revit and AutoCAD for architecture, to Alias, Inventor and Fusion for product design and lots of other tools across the various fields of engineering and mapping and design. The first assignment was to make a key chain with their name on it. Once mastered, we saw all kinds of new designs and one of the students even got up and showed everyone a workflow for bringing vector art into Tinkercad for more detailed design work.
On the way to the 3D printers, we stopped to look at some of the interesting projects and different styles of 3D printing materials like bioprinting, viruses and prosthetics. The final stop was some time to explore the world of virtual reality.
With this background and new firsthand knowledge on the things that Autodesk does, the students jumped into designing the ultimate summer camp that they would like to participate in and lead. For this exercise, students learned about human-centered design and how they could apply it to any challenge they were facing. This exercise had three parts:
At the end, our students presented the great ideas they came up with and you can see them below. Stay tuned to see if we can make this summer camp a reality!