Category: Career Readiness

  • Students looking at mechanical designs and manufactured part

    Teach Sustainable Product Design with the Makersite Add-on for Fusion 360

    Sustainable design practices are becoming a mandate within the design and manufacturing industry. What was once considered an internal business or socially responsible decision has now shifted to an essential component of business legitimacy and success. External forces such as government regulations, consumer demand, need for supply chain resilience are positioning sustainable practices as non-negotiable.…

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  • FIRST Robotics competition showroom floor

    Students Build Bots and Their Futures at the 2023 FIRST Robotics Competition

    At the April 2023 FIRST Championship in Houston, Texas, international teams of high school students faced off in the FIRST Robotics Competition, which combines the excitement of sports with the rigors of STEM learning and skills. The contest draws students of all skill levels—both technical and non-technical—who work on not only building industrial-sized robots that…

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  • Set Up Students for Success with Fusion 360 for Education

    While spring is only just now upon us, before you know it, new graduates will be celebrating their procession onto the next phase of their lives, whether that be higher education or budding careers. Fortunately, it’s always the right time to prepare students for the next-generation workflows and technologies of the future of design and…

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  • The 2023 Make It Bridge Scholarship Design Contest is On

    Vibrant communities are walkable communities. Having convenient, walkable access to local amenities connects pedestrians to businesses, activities, and each other, making for a healthy lifestyle. Blockages to pedestrian access are problems, however, they are also opportunities for designers to solve them through innovation.   With its latest annual Make It Real scholarship design contest, Autodesk challenges…

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  • Students model their bracelet designs

    Diamond in the Rough: Helping Students Discover their Potential as Jewelry Designers

    While exams, research papers, and group projects are an important part of the learning process, these evaluations typically don’t hold much weight outside of the classroom. What if instead, a student project could translate to real-world job experience?   For students studying Textiles and Apparel at University of Texas (UT) Austin, their group project isn’t just…

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  • Four student renders of modular shipping container buildings

    Construction’s Future Innovators Win Academic Support

    For the construction industry to meet the vital needs of the next few decades, it will have to match speedy and reliable building with unprecedented sustainability requirements. And its success will rely upon a new generation of motivated professionals bringing new ideas and innovations to the fore.   Autodesk’s Make It Real program supports those young…

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    Upskilling for the Future with Instructables Student Design Challenges

    College student Nachum Twersky and high school student Teddy Warner participated in the New Year, New Skill Student Design Challenge, taking the grand prize and second place wins, respectively. Read on as they share insights into the wonderful world of upskilling by using Instructables as a platform to prepare for their future careers. Twersky is…

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  • In Nigeria, a Nonprofit Teams with Engineering Students for Gas Safety

    Gas leakage explosions have become a concern in Nigeria, causing increasing fire outbreaks in local communities. To save lives and prevent property damage, the Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) training program is addressing this issue under the 3D Africa program—a prototyping and engineering program within YTF that uses emerging technology like 3D printing to educate…

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  • Learning Robotics in Japan with the FIRST Competition

    At the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan, about 30 teenagers from schools in the Tokyo, Saitama, and Chiba prefectures gather every winter and early spring to learn robotics and build a robot—and not your everyday robot. The students are members of SAKURA Tempesta, a robotics team that’s competed in the worldwide FIRST Robotics Competition…

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  • BattleBots

    Glitch and the BattleBots Las Vegas Competition

    Over the past two pandemic years, many students had to start college virtually—not the ideal entry point for most. In the fall of 2020, and Katherine How entered the University of California, Berkeley, mid-pandemic, and had to figure out how to connect to her new school and classmates from her home in Canada. The story…

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