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Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

13 août 2015

EAN13

9781474700245

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

Strange things are happening at the Hubble Middle School. Someone's setting off the fire alarm, breaking into the school at night, and secretly using the school's brand-new 3-D printer. But worst of all, S.M.A.R.T.S. member Caleb is being blamed! The team will have to use their impressive intellect and best problem-solving skills to figure out this mystery and prove their friend is no delinquent. Can they bring the true troublemaker to justice, or will Caleb be forced to take the fall?

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

13 août 2015

EAN13

9781474700245

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

and g 3DDan er

Metz by Melinda

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Cover art and illustrations by Heath McKenzie

AND THE 3D DANGER

Written by Melinda Metz

Illustrated by Heath McKenzie

“So Watson finds a rock and asks Sherlock what kind

it is,” Jaden Thompson began as he and his best friends,

Zoe Branson and Caleb Quinn, walked into the media

centre at Hubble School on Tuesday morning. “Sherlock

says, ‘It’s sedimentary, my dear Wat…’”

But before Jaden could finish, a loud shriek came

from the back of the room by the makerspace.

“That sounded like Mrs Ram!” Zoe cried, panicked

by the teacher’s scream.

Mrs Ram – short for Mrs Ramanujan – was more than

just the Year 6 science teacher at Hubble. She also ran the

school’s science club, Tech Team. Zoe, Caleb and Jaden

were all in her class, as well as in the club.

“Go!” Jaden exclaimed. “I’ll catch up.” Because he had

cerebral palsy and had to wear leg braces, he couldn’t move

as quickly as his friends.

Zoe and Caleb raced past the rows of bookshelves and

skidded to a halt near the makerspace, the community

area at the back of the media centre where pupils could

collaborate on ideas, robotics, science and computers.

Mr Leavey, the school librarian, and Mrs Ram were both

standing there. They looked startled to see the children

skidding into the makerspace.

“What’s wrong? What’s happened?” Caleb demanded.

“Are you okay?” Zoe asked, looking around to see what

might have caused the scream.

“Everything is fine,” Mrs Ram assured them.

“Then why did you scream?” Jaden asked, joining the

group.

“It wasn’t a scream,” Mrs Ram explained. “It was more

like a squeal of excitement. I was blown away by what just

arrived for the makerspace!”

“What is it?” Caleb asked.

Mr Leavey and Mrs Ram stepped back, allowing the

three children to see what was sitting on the table.

Zoe’s brown eyes went wide. “Is that a… ”

“It’s a 3-D printer!” Caleb burst out, interrupting her.

“It it meant to be for us?” Jaden asked. “For the Tech

Team?”

Mrs Ram grinned and nodded. “That’s a big yes!”

Zoe started hopping up and down on her toes. Jaden

and Caleb did a fist bump. A 3-D printer they were going to

be able to use? That was beyond exciting.

“We applied for a grant to get the money for the

printer,” Mr Leavey explained, grinning just as widely

as Mrs Ram. “And we got it! Look what I’ve just made.”

He opened the Plexiglas door at the front of the printer,

reached in, and pulled out a hand made out of red plastic.

“It’s a copy of my hand!”

“We’ve got a 3-D scanner too,” Mrs Ram explained. “That

way we can make copies of real objects – like Mr Leavey’s

hand. But there’s also software that will let us create 3-D

objects on the computer and then print out 3-D versions.”

“It’s so interesting,” Mr Leavey said. “After I scanned the

3-D image of my hand into the computer, I used a computer

program to separate the image into hundreds of horizontal

layers. The printer builds the object you’re creating one layer

at a time. It has a nozzle that moves around, pouring out

melted plastic. The plastic hardens almost immediately, so

there’s no waiting time between making layers. Think of it

as using an extreme glue gun to draw. When all the layers

are combined – voilà!”

Mr Leavey waved the plastic replica he’d made of his

hand. Zoe noticed his shirt had come untucked – again.

Typical Mr Leavey. He always kept the media centre in

perfect order, but he had trouble keeping himself quite

as tidy.

“That’s so cool!” Caleb exclaimed, exchanging an excited

high five with Jaden. “I can’t wait to try it out.”

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