Students Redesign Ketchup Cap using 3D Printing Technology

If you want to get students excited about new technologies like 3D printing, you have to let them follow their passion — even if that passion is ketchup!

High school seniors Tyler Richards and Jonathan Thompson have spent a lot of time thinking about ketchup.

As students in the Project Lead the Way program at North Liberty High School, Richards and Thompson have researched and developed a bottle cap that prevents that first squirt of ketchup from being a watery mess.

Utilizing 3D printing in your school or lab will enable your students to rapidly prototype their models. With a 3D printer students can quickly fabricate physical models using three-dimensional computer aided design data. Rapid prototyping allows students to turn innovative ideas into physical parts for testing design, fit and function! Click here to learn more about rapid prototyping!

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