Customers, friends, partners, and students braved 100 degree temperatures and some unusual traffic to gather at PADT’s Tempe office to celebrate engineering and manufacturing in Arizona at Nerdtoberfest. Machinists, startup experts, engineers, and professors mingled under the stars and took a tour of the facilities while enjoying pizza and beer.
The day started with a seminar on Metal 3D Printing given by Dr. Dhruv Bhate. If you missed it, you can watch his talk here:
We followed that with the first ever PADT Perfect Pitch competition, where four teams pitched the same fictitious company as an exercise in seeing if those who teach, can do. That was such a big part of the day that it has it’s own blog post including a link to a video of all of the pitches.
And after the the laughing and congratulations to the winner of the Unicorn Cup, we started the open house. A chance to tour PADT and network with other members of the Arizona Tech Community.
If you have ever read a post before about one of our open houses you know we have a consistent problem. Once the party starts we stop taking pictures. The only one I got was of Dhruv showing off our new Laser Concepts Metal 3D Printer.
That room was definitely the star of the show and we calculated that Dhruv was talking from 3:00 to 8:30 – five and a half hours non-stop. He earned his pizza and beer.
The table from Basis Chandler was also popular, where they talked about their 3D Printed prosthetic hand project. We also had representatives from the SciTech Festival and RevAZ talking to visitors. The 3D Printing demo room was great and many people stopped to hear about how we are combining 3D Printing and ANSYS Simulation.
We always enjoy these events, they give us a chance to socialize with people we see all the time in work situations. It is also a great opportunity for us to introduce people that would probably otherwise not meet, and grow the strength of the Arizona engineering and manufacturing ecosystem.
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