The Association of Professional Model Makers (APMM) announces the opening ofregistration for the 2010 APMM Conference “Revolutions in Model Making – Creating the Future Faster” on March 26-29, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. Details and registration at: www.modelmakers.org/page/2010 and www.modelmakers.org .
The keynote speaker is Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and author of “FAB…THE COMING REVOLUTION ON YOUR DESKTOP – FROM PERSONAL COMPUTERS TO PERSONAL FABRICATION”. Saturday and Sunday are workshops on the latest model making materials, techniques, tools and resources as well as career essentials. Friday and Monday are tours of Boston area model facilities at DEKA, Continuum, BOSE, Rhode Island School of Design, Hasbro, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Boston City Model and MIT. The student model making competition has a $500 first prize and the winner’s school receives a RepRap personal fabricator machine that will be built at the conference.