Innovation

Redesigning Chess

By Meera Ramanathan, posted on May 16, 2025

I am pleased to share with you a 3D-printing lesson I implemented involving chess pieces. This was our first-ever 3D-printing lesson, and I wanted students to come up with a creative solution to a problem. I gave them the following prompt: “If you could change one piece in a chess game, what would it look like, what would its name be, and how would it move?”

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