Presentation on #3dprinting and youth

1. D E E PA K M E H TA
3DP & ALIENS

2. OVERVIEW
• Who am I?
• Why me?
• Post-digital era
• 3dP & youth
• advice

3. WHO AM I?
• Deepak Mehta
• 20 for the last 20 years
• Early adaptor
• An Alien on this planet?

4. WHY ME?
• Deepak TNG = Ritik
• Early adaptor like me
• 3dP at TEDxKids@Brussels
• immersed in 3dP
• surrounded by people
who make him feel less
alien

5. P O S T- D I G I TA L
• The digital era is over
• Post-digital
• Digital <-> RL
• Sensors and Arduinos
• 3dP will enable
digitalesque revolutions
in the physical world

6. 3DP & YOUTH
• Why only workshops to
youth?
• They understand!
• They will act!
• Not yet boxed
• Make them feel less alien
and confident to revolt.

7. ADVICE
• Warn kids about the future
• Surround them with
enablers (aliens?)
• Not only scientific mindset
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Design mindset
• Hacker mindset

8. TOOLS
• tinkercad.com
• Local Fablab/Makerspace
• Follow me, ask me
• @deeeep
• Google “Deeeep”