Dade students create 3-D lake sturgeon replica
For the past three months, students at Dade County High School in Trenton, Georgia have been designing, printing and assembling a six-foot replica of a lake sturgeon for the the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute.
The process of creating the sturgeon has been an exercise in trial and error, said Nick Wilson, who teaches the school’s advanced mechatronics class, in a statement.
In September, Wilson assigned three of his advanced mechatronics students – Logan Gordy, Dakota Angle and Taryn York – to head up the sturgeon build. Two other students, Caleb Munger and Basil Nakhleh, also contributed to the project. The students have been solely responsible for creating the model.
“We started with brainstorming the design of something organic, then learning new tools to use in the 3-D software along the way and trial and error on the assembly side of things,” Wilson said in a statement. “All of this was an enormous task for the students.”