{"id":9746,"date":"2018-04-17T12:15:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T16:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=9746"},"modified":"2018-04-18T06:41:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T10:41:54","slug":"fab-lab-valletta-maltas-community-space-for-designers-and-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2018\/04\/fab-lab-valletta-maltas-community-space-for-designers-and-makers.html","title":{"rendered":"Fab Lab Valletta – Malta’s Community Space for Designers and Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The island nation of Malta has a rich history and culture. It’s capital, Valletta is a European Art City and a World Heritage City.\u00a0 Fab Lab Valletta<\/a> brings together\u00a0 education and entrepreneurship for a community of designers and makers.<\/p>\n

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Director, Milan<\/strong> Noro<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>provided us with the story on how Fab Lab Valletta is making a difference in his community and the global Fab Lab network.<\/p>\n

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We were introduced to three student interns, Jo\u00e3o Queir\u00f3s<\/strong>,\u00a0Pedro Pereira<\/strong>,\u00a0Ana Teixeira<\/strong>, from Arvore Escola Artistica<\/a> Porto, Portugal.<\/p>\n

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FabLab Valletta’s mission is to sensitize the community to the benefits of digital fabrication technologies in order to encourage their use in solving everyday problems for the city and its citizens, as described by one of the founders, Joe Galea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Illustrations of the historic bridge project the team was working on could be found in the marble stairwell of the Architect-Project building.\u00a0It was an honor to meet David Felice<\/strong><\/a>, founding partner of Architecture Projects and founding partner of FabLab Valletta.<\/p>\n

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Fab Lab Manager Olivia Sike<\/strong>, from Hungary also shares this passion for design and making as she proudly displayed the “2017 Business Website Award” for Fab Lab Valletta.<\/p>\n

The students gave us more details on they use SOLIDWORKS for everything designed in school.\u00a0 They shared their projects with us.<\/p>\n

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The students also showed us a soccer-pool game designed for children to play in the park.<\/p>\n

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All will be graduating this year and continuing with SOLIDWORKS at university.\u00a0 They will continue their internship at the Fab Lab Valletta for three months.<\/p>\n

Thank you Milan, David, Joe, Olivia and students for sharing with the SOLIDWORKS community.\u00a0 Marie<\/p>\n

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