3D Pen STEAM Workshops for Schools
Nurturing and directing innate creativity towards new opportunities and the necessary skills.
Every Workshop Sparks a Real STEAM Adventure
Overview
3D Pen School Workshops bring hands-on STEAM learning to your classroom, assembly, or after-school program. Students design, build, and take home their own 3D-pen creations, guided by our trained Tech Coaches in a space built for curiosity, creativity, and confidence.
Explore our two Activity Tracks:
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Elementary Classrooms (Grades K-5)
Perfect for classroom visits, science fairs, and after-school STEAM clubs. Students design and build their own take-home 3D pen creations while learning real engineering concepts.
Middle & High Schools (Grades 6-12)
A deeper STEAM experience for older students. Groups tackle more advanced techniques, design challenges, or a mini competition that builds real engineering and problem-solving skills.
Special Events & School Assemblies
Perfect for school assemblies, library visits, STEM nights, and teacher in-service days. A fun, hands-on activity that brings STEAM learning to life for the whole school community.
Who It's For :
What's Included
Every 3D Pen School Workshop is designed to be completely stress-free for teachers — we bring the materials and expertise, you just show up and enjoy.
All Materials Included
Every student gets their own 3D pen, unlimited filament, and a design template to work from — no supplies to buy or bring.
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Trained Tech Coach Included
A friendly, experienced Tech Coach runs the whole workshop — teaching techniques, keeping things safe, and helping every student finish a project they're proud of.
Take-Home Creations
Every student takes home the 3D pen creation they made — a hands-on keepsake and a great conversation starter about what they learned.
Program Pricing: from $375/session
Pricing
Literacy, Letters and Comprehension
3D pen activities can also support literacy development by allowing students to create letters, words, names, symbols, characters, and visual representations connected to classroom reading.
Activities may include:
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Forming uppercase and lowercase letters
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Building sight words and vocabulary words
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Creating names, labels, and word art
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Designing characters or objects from a story
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Representing a setting, theme, or important idea
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Retelling part of a story through a physical model
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Creating visual responses to reading
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Explaining and presenting completed designs
This approach gives students another way to process information and demonstrate comprehension—especially students who may communicate more effectively through making, drawing, building, or presenting than through traditional written responses alone.
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Supporting Classroom Learning Through Hands-On Design & Engineering
3D Pen Party™ experiences can be customized to reinforce district learning goals while giving students a creative, hands-on way to demonstrate what they understand.
Our two strongest areas of instructional alignment are mathematics and literacy.
Math and Geometry
Students can use 3D pens to explore mathematical concepts by designing, measuring, building, testing, and revising physical objects.
Activities may support concepts such as:
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Two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes
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Lines, angles, symmetry, patterns, and scale
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Perimeter, area, volume, and spatial reasoning
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Measurement and estimation
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Structural design and engineering
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Converting a flat design into a standing form
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Applying the Engineering Design Process
Students do more than complete a worksheet. They use mathematical thinking to create an object, identify problems, make adjustments, and explain their design decisions.
Examples include geometric sculptures, architectural structures, bridges, cubes, pyramids, models, and collaborative design challenges focused on overcoming the challenges each of these projects present.
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3D Pen Party™ Engineering Design Challenge Series
Real Engineering. Real Teamwork. Real Innovation.
Whether you're planning a STEM Day, summer camp, after-school program, family engagement event, homeschool enrichment day, or community celebration, the 3D Pen Party™ Engineering Design Challenge Series transforms your space into an exciting innovation lab where participants collaborate, compete, and think like engineers.
Each challenge is built around the Engineering Design Process—students imagine, design, build, test, improve, and compete while developing creativity, communication, resilience, and problem-solving skills through hands-on engineering.
Choose One Challenge—or Build a Full Engineering Series
#1 The Vertical Challenge™
Build the Tallest Free-Standing Structure
Teams race against the clock to design and construct the tallest stable structure possible using only 3D pens and filament. Strategy, structural design, and teamwork determine the winners.
#2 The Bridge Challenge™
Build the Strongest Bridge
Students use 3DPens to engineer bridges that span a two-foot gap before testing them under increasing weight. Every test reveals valuable lessons about design, reinforcement, and structural engineering.
#3 Party Bots™ Engineering Challenges
Circuits & Robotics 101
Participants use 3DPens to design and build their own vibrating robot before competing in exciting engineering games such as Speed Runs, Knock the Flag, Last Bot Standing, and Battle Royale. Teams redesign and improve their bots between rounds using the real engineering design process (EDP).
Flexible Program Formats
Our Engineering Design Challenges can be customized to fit your schedule and objectives.
⚡ One-Time Challenge Event
Perfect for STEM Days, school assemblies, community events, recreation centers, Family Days, and special celebrations.
📚 Multi-Day or Multi-Week Program
Students design, prototype, test, improve, and compete over several class sessions, allowing for deeper learning and iterative engineering.
☀ Summer Camps & Youth Programs
Create a memorable multi-day engineering experience by combining multiple challenges into one exciting camp curriculum.
🏡 Homeschool Organizations
Bring homeschool learners together for collaborative engineering competitions that combine creativity, design thinking, and hands-on STEM.
👨👩👧 Family Engagement Events
Parents, caregivers, and children work together as engineering teams, creating memorable experiences while learning through play and collaboration.
We Come to You for all Design Challenge Activities!
Our experienced Tech Coaches can bring the complete Engineering Design Challenge experience directly to your:
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School
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Recreation Center
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Library
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Summer Camp
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Homeschool Cooperative
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Community Organization
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Corporate Family Day
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Military Family Day
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Youth Program
We provide the equipment, materials, instruction, setup, facilitation, and excitement for both activity tracks.
Let's Design Your Engineering Challenge
Every organization has different goals, timelines, and participants. We'll work with you to create an Engineering Design Challenge experience that fits your schedule, supports your learning objectives, and delivers an unforgettable hands-on STEM experience.
One Challenge. One Day. One Week. All Summer.
You imagine it—we'll help build it.
You may also elevate the activities by visiting our dedicated creative venue for a guided "Rings & Things" experience on our own turf:
(We do not host large multi-team events at our 3DPenParty SPACE, the max capacity is 22 participants at that venue.)
The 3D Pen Party SPACE
321 E. Cromwell Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
Our Arts & Tech Work+Shop offers an immersive environment designed specifically for hands-on engineering, creativity, and innovation. It's the perfect destination for field trips, private group experiences, homeschool organizations, and special engineering events.
Inclusive Learning and Students with IEPs
FullBlast STEAM has also studied the use of 3D pen activities with students who have IEPs and 504 Plans.
Our hands-on approach may help support:
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Student engagement
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Fine-motor development
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Confidence and persistence
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Communication and collaboration
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Creative expression
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Following multi-step directions
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Problem-solving
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Participation alongside peers
Programs can be adjusted to reflect student abilities, classroom needs, session length, group size, and instructional goals i.e. "Life Skills".
Download our white paper to learn more about our work with students with IEPs and the outcomes observed during our school-based pilot. Working with a clinical, rehabilitation, or wellness program? Visit our Therapy & Wellness page for our non-clinical, hypothesis-driven approach built specifically for those professionals and the groups they serve.