Škoda EDU.LAB educates students thanks to the support of Škoda FabLab

May 2023

#Control and Diagnostic Systems #Work with students #Innovation #Predictive maintenance

Project's goal

The aim of the project is to educate the public widely and show students that technology can be interesting and fun - to increase their interest in technology.

Results

Increase in the number of students interested in modern technology and technology. Another benefit is the broad education of the public and increased awareness of opportunities to access modern technology.

Description of the solution

Škoda EDU.Lab will once again embark on its educational tour in early April 2023. Over the next three years, it aims to visit all regions in the Czech Republic (plus selected regions in Slovakia) and get students excited about studying technology in secondary and higher education.

All content has been updated compared to last year, also with the support of Škoda FabLab and the PSZ/5 - Predictive Maintenance department. Thanks to this cooperation, the 3D printing station, for which a 3D scanner was lent by FabLab, could be updated. Now we can show the students the way from a digital 3D model to a real object, and vice versa, and have fun with the use of 3D scanners in the production process. A new mixed reality station has been created indoors where, thanks to the HoloLens 2 glasses borrowed from FabLab, it is possible to demonstrate to students that being able to interact with virtual objects projected onto a real environment is no longer the music of the future, but something they can encounter in industry. In addition, there are plans to use the Scholaris app in the future to further expose students to the possibilities of using this technology.

In addition to the jointly prepared stations, the experienced Technology Literacy tutors will show the students, for example, a collaborative robot, try their hand at virtual reality painting, tell them interesting facts about artificial intelligence and its use in industry, or try and calculate with the visitors how long it would take them to charge a docked Enyaq iV on their own. The best students can take away a glowing 3D printed model of the Enyaq as a memento, for which FabLab has also lent some of its 3D printing capabilities.

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