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Makers Empire 3D is the world's most fun, easy to use 3D design app created specifically for students in grades K-8.

Makers Empire is loved by 2.2 million students in 50+ countries and used to create 100,000 new 3D designs every day.

Learn, create, solve, and share, with the world's most fun and easy to use 3D design app.

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What Do Teachers Think?

"The students love it. They picked it up very quickly. Now, they are better at it than I am!"

Colleen Small, Media Specialist

Groveland Elementary School, Minnesota, USA

"I love Makers Empire software. It is great to use with elementary age students... I love teaching students how to design for 3D printing. It's so fun watching them problem solve to create a certain shape by adding or taking away."

Karen Owen, Technology Teacher

Grace Christian Academy, Tennessee, USA

"Makers Empire has been a great tool for many of my students that find other CAD software difficult... Originally I started with my whole class using TinkerCAD. However, when given the choice many of my students gravitated to Makers Empire. I'm not sure if they prefer using the touch screen on the tablets to manipulate their designs, the gamification, or something else, but many have been successful with it and have made some great designs!"

Jeff Hennigar, Grade 4/5 Teacher

BLT Senior Elementary School, Nova Scotia, Canada

"Software is great, very user friendly... Kids loved it."

Bryan Couts, Technology Teacher

Titusville Middle School, Pennsylvania, USA

"Makers Empire is a more student-friendly version of TinkerCAD for your primary kids. It's so much easier and there are games to teach the kids how to design and how to manoeuvre the build plate… TinkerCAD, Sketchup – they are all for upper grades."

Robin McGinnis, North/South/Jr. High Lead Teacher – STEAM

Mount Healthy City School District, USA

"I use Makers Empire to enhance students' ability to demonstrate understanding across a wide range of topics. As we work through different curriculum, including geometric shapes, things we're scared of, plants and insects, and engineering design challenges, students create 3D models related to the content… We use the app to create 3D products that are printed as well as those that are not, but still viewed in 3D on the iPads."

Jennifer Auten, 2nd Grade Teacher

Mont Claire Elementary School, California, USA

"The kids just fly...The software makes it easy – if the software was more difficult it wouldn't work as well. It's at the right level for the reception students but it's also not too easy for the upper primary kids. It's a good start-off point... My class will go into another class — junior primary, middle primary or upper primary — and will partner one on one with the other students and help them learn how to use the software... My kids love helping the other students... Just to see the students faces light up during lessons is so good."

Monica Berno, Grade 6/7 Teacher

Fulham North Primary School, Fulham North, SA

"After having tried several softwares I can say hands down that Makers Empire has been the easiest for my students in grades 3-5 to access and manipulate."

Christopher Burdman, STEM Teacher

Joseph P Tynan Elementary School, Boston, USA

3dprinting with no experience? No cad modelling skills required? Anyone can create a 3dprintable design in under 5 minutes? Sounds like a dream come true and that is now a reality with the release of Makers Empire 3dprinting software ... Makers Empire allows users with no experience of 3d design, to create models from scratch in a matter of minutes... a game changer. Every child can succeed regardless of ability."

Phillip Cotton, Design & Technology Teacher

United Kingdom

"I have been doing 3D design and printing for about four years. I have used many programs including Sketchup, 123dDesign and Tinkercad. I am always looking for new programs and ran across Makers Empire when searching for 3D programs and ideas… I immediately was interested in the idea of a curriculum and being able to have classes… I signed up for the trial first and fell in love with the format… I also loved the different areas that the students could explore and that they could work at home as well. It is very engaging and my students love it! I like that I can set challenges and that they can also follow the challenges from the curriculum. The interface is very easy and the students can master it quickly. I like all the things students can do such as monthly contests and the game zone. Being able to design in a 3D environment is key to their computer studies as they progress through the grades. They love designing in the 3D world. I think it is a skill that will be important to them as they grow. It inspires their creativity and put their ideas into reality. They have gained confidence in their creative abilities and their perseverance increased as well."

Ruth Hanson, Lower School Educational Technologist

Duchesne Academy, Texas

"As a school, this has been a game changer in the 3D design game for our students of all ages. This is a great design and creation tool that teachers and students can use to be innovative and share ideas with a vibrant community of makers. With Makers Empire, students learn how to identify needs and opportunities and then create, prototype, test and refine designs of solutions using 3D printing."

Craig Kemp, Head of Educational Technology

Stamford American International School, Singapore

"The kids love it and it is a pleasure to teach with. It is easy to use and all the extra activities do a great job at developing the skills necessary to design printable 3d models in a fun, game-like manner. My students continue their learning at home completing challenges and developing new skills. This is the true value of software. It can provide a platform for students who are enthusiastic to keep learning after the school bell rings... The addition of the Australian Curriculum aligned challenges is fantastic and really encourages the use of this software in state schools throughout Australia... Giving feedback to students and rewarding great work is very easy using the assessment tools. I use this feature a lot."

Jay Wright, SET, STLAN and Technologies Teacher

Vale View State School, QLD

"Yessss! We have found the perfect application for Elementary Students to design and 3D Print on the iPad. Thank you @MakersEmpire!!

Adam Torrens, Educator

Stamford American International School, Singapore

"...when I started using Makers Empire with the kids they really took to it. I think that we had 5,000 designs within a month's time! What is really nice about Makers Empire is it's the first time that the students are actually creating something. We've had a 3D printer and stuff going on four or five years now (but) the students didn't really create (anything) original... But with Makers Empire, each student had all of these different unique creations... Makers Empire is a game changer... There's a lot of software out there but Makers Empire has incorporated so many different features. With the challenges and then the tutorials built in, no one else has that."

Karie Huttner, K-5 Educational Technology Coach

Verona Area School District, Verona, USA

"I have worked with several (different) design software but Makers Empire is the easiest to use... One of the best things students learned is that it is okay to not get the "right" answer the first time, or second time. Students know that "failing" is part of the design process and problem-solving. Students have expanded their problem-solving skills to think more outside of the box."

Casey Corn, STEM Teacher

Chesnee Elementary School, South Carolina, USA

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Makers Empire's 3D software is the cornerstone of our complete solutions for schools, which include professional development, curriculum-aligned lesson plans, class management tools and support. Makers Empire leads the way in terms of teaching Design Thinking in schools via 3D printing.