Herningsholm students win the Danish 3D Printing Championship again
A team of four students from Herningsholm Vocational School and Gymnasiums came out on top when a winner was to be found in the nationwide competition, the Danish 3D Printing Championship for vocational school students. This is the second year in a row that students from Herningsholm have won the competition.
It was Kasper Riber Meldgaard, Lasse Holten Møller, Mircea Remus Vezure (left) and Gustav Dorow Nørbygård (right) from Herningsholm who took home the victory, the honour and a 3D printer each as a prize when, on Wednesday, 16 November 2022, a winner of the Danish 3D Printing Championship 2022 was announced.
The students had conceived and developed a measuring tool that makes it easy and quick to read the size of, for example, drill bits, with the aim of improving the storage cabinets in the workshop and creating more order and fewer everyday irritations.
“It is really wonderful that we won. I am simply so happy about it. We have had great collaboration in the group, where we have made optimal use of each other’s different skills, and that in itself has been a fun and exciting process—and I am just really happy that we also won,” says Mircea Remus Vezure, who, like his teammates, is an industrial technician student in Basic Course 2.
Unfortunately, two of the teammates were ill when the two knowledge centres that organised the competition stopped by to surprise the winning team—but teammate Gustav Dorow Nørbygård had no doubt that the prize would be well received by his classmates.
“We have all really opened our eyes to what 3D printing can do, and how far you can go with a good idea and a good team. In my view, there is no doubt that 3D printing in different materials is the technology of the future—and it is already here—so it has simply been great to be allowed to immerse ourselves in the technology and develop a very concrete product,” says Gustav Dorow Nørbygård.
The competition’s judges emphasised that the students addressed their challenge in a well-executed and thorough manner, that the production of their gauge using 3D printing was close to perfect, and that the gauge has great usability also beyond the students’ own trade group.
High level
At this year’s Danish 3D Printing Championship for vocational school students, the teams—consisting of 2–4 students—were to use 3D printing technology to improve or repair something from the students’ everyday life and field of study. In their solution, the students were to focus on upcycling, improvement, reuse or repair.
In total, 16 teams from five different vocational schools competed: Mercantec, Svendborg Vocational School and Gymnasiums, EUC Nordvest, NEXT and Herningsholm Vocational School and Gymnasiums. And it was not only the winning team that had gone the extra mile.
“The level this year has been extremely high. It has truly been fantastic to see how the students have worked hard, thought outside the box and let their creativity guide them in the pursuit of solving very concrete challenges in their everyday lives,” says Troels Høyrup Nepper, vocational teacher and project manager at the Knowledge Centre for Crafts, Design and Architecture, which is one of the organisers of the competition.
Aims to increase interest in 3D printing
The competition was launched by the Knowledge Centre for Crafts, Design and Architecture and the Knowledge Centre for Automation and Robotics Technology to support vocational school students’ interest in 3D printing technology and increase the general desire to work creatively with technology.
“It is important that vocational education programmes embrace the technology and its many possibilities if Danish companies are not to lose competitiveness and fall behind abroad. Therefore, it is important that vocational school students become familiar with the technology and its possibilities, so they are equipped for the labour market of the future and can see the opportunities in the technology,” says Christoffer Boserup Skov, Head of the Knowledge Centre at the Knowledge Centre for Automation and Robotics Technology.
The use of 3D printing technologies is growing explosively globally across many different industries, and therefore it is important that vocational school students broadly acquire skills in the area.
Facts about the knowledge centres
The Knowledge Centre for Automation and Robotics Technology and the Knowledge Centre for Crafts, Design and Architecture are two of a total of nine national knowledge centres established to help ensure that Danish vocational education programmes are ready for rapid technological development and can match the skills demanded by Danish companies.
The Knowledge Centre for Automation and Robotics Technology is located at the host school Mercantec in Viborg.
The Knowledge Centre for Crafts, Design and Architecture is located at the host school NEXT in Valby.
Text by: Knowledge Centre for Automation and Robotics Technology
