The Vankleek Hill and District Nature Society had the honour of welcoming Isabel Deslauriers as their guest speaker on Monday, October 19 at the VCI library.
Deslauriers, who lives in East Hawkesbury, is a McGill graduate who works in Science Outreach and Education. She strives to share these interests with everyone, including youth, as a way of connecting with the environment. She loves tracking animals at home, while camping, and while traveling abroad. She has even done tracking from a kayak and underwater!
The 3D Animal Tracks Project was born out of a love of nature and an interest in 3D printing. Her first 3D scanned/printed animal track model came from noticing a well-defined dog print in the mud which led her to pull out her smartphone and take several photos. From there she was able to program her 3D printer!
What Deslauriers presented to an audience of 30, was totally captivating. She not only brought along her 3D printer to show us, but she got the group to participate in some track identification. There was an assortment of 3D printed animal/bird track models and we were given an ID pamphlet to try and match the right track to the right animal—it was a lot harder than one would think!
Isabel Deslauriers would really appreciate anyone who would like to share with her any tracks they find.
To contact her go to these links:
1) [email protected]
2) Let’s talk Science: www.letstalkscience.ca
3) 3dtracks.weebly.com
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