Training models for the use of 3D printing technology in prison

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developing or joining state longitudinal tracking systems that allow for the ability to track
students after release and document return on investment; and
collaborating with other facility staff to identify and schedule other uses for the technology.
To achieve these five goals, prison directors will need to explore the various approaches to providing
educational technology in prison facilities. We encourage agencies and their education partners to
find out more about the early implementers’ systems and lessons learned, pilot one or more of the
approaches in their facilities, identify innovative solutions to ongoing challenges, and share
information and experiences with one another.
3D printing training project in prison: how to get in touch with the prison
administration
Now we are in the shoes of a voluntary organization, or educational in general, that want to undertake
a path of digital education, and 3D printing laboratory in prison. We assume that if you are reading
these pages you are already involved in rehabilitation activities in prison, or otherwise you have
experience with the prison dimension. But before entering into the merits of the training courses for
3D printers to be carried out in prison, we feel we must remember some basic elements that impact
on the development of the training courses that will be carried out, and which must be taken into
account to set up the training setting.
Premise (not obvious, never):
The penitentiary is a place where it is very difficult to enter and above all to speak with people who
can give certain and sensible answers in a reasonable time, even the simplest activity such as sending
an email to an official address on the Penitentiary website or ministry, it does not always have an
answer…
Phases (the Ten Commandments)
1. Make an appointment with the direction of the Institute and with the educators.
Do a presentation of the training project to the penitentiary with comprehensible and not very
technological words.
2. If the project receives the approval from the penitentiary, we understand what it takes to
build a prison training course.
3. Once the appointment with management and educators has been set, a long (and often
complicated) period begins. In this phase the main commitment is to establish all the rules
and conditions for the functionality of the training course:
● To define a framework agreement of collaboration with prison, containing the main rules of
management of the trainings.
● The preparation of the suitable didactic spaces:The classroom (not always present or
usable) must be spacious enough to accommodate a minimum of 10-12 students, the
classroom must be available for both frontal lessons and on other days to allow students
to study and try from alone to make 2D and 3D drawings and objects.
● Standard technological systems: often there is no didactic laboratory and almost never have
electrical systems in compliance, therefore the institute must provide the electrical
systems in accordance with the agreement agreeing on the lay-out provided by the
Commentato [1]: Definire un accordo quadro di
collaborazione con carcere
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