We are a group of people who fight to pave the way for a better digital support of teachers and a more fun way to teach STEAM topics. This story revolves around the struggle to find a way to help teachers learn something they are often frightened of: 3D printing!

We already collected experiences with teachers in previous workshops. In Montenegro, we conducted more workshops on a tour with around 200 teachers. There, we discovered something amazingly obvious: teacher like to do things they can relate to! Also, they seem to like cookies made out of art. First they were told how 3D printing could be useful in their classes, second, how it can be used especially for math classes and third how a 3D printer is operated and where models for printing come from.

The teachers were very different in engagement from school to school. While it was not really much of a dialogue in the beginning workshops, the workshops at the end of our tour were emotional and teachers were very engaged.

Some of them did not want to stop even though some of the workshops were in the afternoon and everyone was tired. The change came when we showed them how to create cookie cutters out of art we found on the walls of the schools. These cookie cutters are easy to make using https://cookiecaster.herokuapp.com/.