Teachers Impacted: Evan Williams, Jim Foreman, Mark Crenshaw
Grade Levels Impacted: 9th,10th,11th,12th
Students Impacted: 350
Description: This grant will fund the purchase of a Bambu Lab H2D dual nozzle 3D printer with 40W laser module, dramatically expanding prototyping capacity for the Friendswood High School Engineering Department and supporting cross-curricular collaboration. This machine increases our print volume beyond our current X1C and adds the capability to laser cut and engrave wood, composites, leather, fabrics, rubber, and more-opening new doors in engineering, rocketry, robotics, and product design.

Our current X1C printers are heavily used by Rocketry, FRC Robotics, FTC Robotics, Mustang Incubator, and independent student engineering projects. We are constantly scheduling around build volume limitations and wait time bottlenecks. The Bambu Lab H2D not only increases build throughput with larger dual material prints, but also replaces the need for expensive outsourcing of laser cutting for prototyping, brackets, fixtures, custom jigging, logos, sponsor plates, gearbox plates, and rocket hardware. This grant allows us to do all fabrication work fully in-house, lowering student cost barriers and increasing speed of iteration-crucial in engineering education.