Science Maker Award

A future-friendly award

The Science Maker Award is a prize meant for children who have done a cool research project. These young kids will maybe one day change the world with their ideas. That calls for a prize with a similar ambition.

We did not want to create another decorative prize that would be thrown away, but to design something that captures the same spirit as these children. We challenged ourselves to create an award that was future-friendly by not using any new (virgin) materials.

The plastic (PLA) of 3D prints is particularly easy to re-use. We collected failed 3D prints, left-overs etc. of this plastic around the city of Groningen and used these as a resource to create something new.

The results are 150 awards that are all unique in shape and color. About 10 kilos of PLA plastic has been re-used (with left-overs of this production being re-used again) with no virgin material added.

Type: Product
Partners: Fablab Groningen, Science Maker Award
Donations by: Forum, Okaphone, De Jonge Onderzoekers, Fablab Groningen and various makers