DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - The Caterpillar Foundation partnered with the Fab Foundation to bring its "Fab in a Box" (FiaB) device to Eisenhower High School. FiaBs are mobile STEM devices that contain laser cutters, 3D printers, electronics kits and integrated computer programs.

"The goal with digital fabrication devices like this is to put the concept of manufacturing into the hands of students and provide them with that rapid prototyping so they really can make just about anything on the cart," said Abigail McCune, an educational outreach consultant for the Fab Foundation.

Students used the device to make prototypes of airplanes and determine how wind shapes and angles impacted speed and efficiency through the air. They compiled their plane elements on a digital program before they were cut

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