Section: Dissemination

Popularization

Ada Lovelace Day

In the context of the Ada Lovelace Day, 9th October 2018, Noémie Vennin received about twenty young girls in our 3D printer room. The Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in these fields and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support women already working in.

IceSL Event for non-academic users

The IceSL event was held on February 22, 2018 in Paris. The objective was to bring together our community as well as new users. We invited external users, industrial partners and FabLabs at large (through national mailing lists).

The program (https://www.weezevent.com/icesl) involved training with the software (by all the IceSL team members, 6 sessions in total), then we had our most experienced users present advanced use of IceSL: advanced modeling with implicit volumes by Loic Fejoz, modeling of orthopedic braces by Pierre Alexandre Hugron, the making-of of a complex table with our partner Creative Industry. We finally had a social event with an exhibition of our best parts.

The gathering was a success, with 50 attendees – the maximum we could host – from a variety of backgrounds (makers and industry). Following the event we saw a clear growth in the interest around the software, with a tripled visit rate to our website and a steep increase in downloads (25% additional downloads since then). The French IceSL community is especially active, with 15% of our total visits, just after the United States (23%).

We are scheduled to repeat this event (in a more compact format) in March 2019 at Station F, in Paris.