3-D Printing Lab

Thanks to support from GEF, the Applied Materials Foundation and generous private donors, Gloucester High School now boasts a dedicated 3-D printing laboratory, where students design, program and manufacture objects of their own creation and have the experience of taking an idea from inception through final product.

The first phase came in 2014, when the school acquired a ProJet 3-D printer, an advanced unit that employs industry-standard software, giving students additional skills for the college campus and workplace.

Additional funding enabled the purchase of a number of smaller printers for the 3-D lab in 2017, as well as for several classrooms and learning spaces throughout the schools.  Gloucester High has added an engineering program in Design and Manufacturing, and a new machining-engineering facility for advanced manufacturing is being installed at the school that will include the use of 3-D printers in the design and production areas.