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Hi Marcelo, excellent initiative !!!

Thank you very much Stéphane, especially for your spontaneous support of the students. We value it very much!

No problem Marcelo, the likes were deserved, a very good job given by your students, you are lucky to have such gifted students who also surely have your pedagogy....

Thank you very much Stéphane, again!

The talent of the students is rarely expressed in this university that tries to make you a professional following an old, rigid and very unmotivating analytical recipe.

I believe that the greatest teaching contribution is "lighting the flame and inducing self-learning." Because the mere transmission of a set of knowledge, although valuable, is limited in quantity (due to lack of time) and biased in quality (due to the technical capacity of the teacher).

We older people know that in any profession the fundamental thing is permanent practice and introspection that leads to self-learning. We even use this same thing to improve, put in crisis and relearn the specific knowledge that was transmitted to us imperfectly (imperfect teachers and methods + immature learners) in school, university and industry.

Again, thank you very much for your feedback!

Great suggestion!

PS: the first 25 entered GC for the challenge https://grabcad.com/challenges/nasa-challenge-positive-connections-a-mechanism-to-connect-on-contact:

01. https://grabcad.com/matias.gasparotti-2

02. https://grabcad.com/bruno.giudici-2

03. https://grabcad.com/manuel.larreteguy-2

04. https://grabcad.com/agustin.amerise-2

05. https://grabcad.com/fernando.vilanova-1

06. https://grabcad.com/juan.pividori-1

07. https://grabcad.com/brandon.montilla-1

08. https://grabcad.com/kevin.brain-3

09. https://grabcad.com/lisandro.luna-2

10. https://grabcad.com/pedro.alexis.beltramo-1

11. https://grabcad.com/giuliano.scarafile-1

12. https://grabcad.com/rocio.neuhaus-1

13. https://grabcad.com/alfredo.soto-5

14. https://grabcad.com/agustin.trosarello-1

15. https://grabcad.com/esteban.pascual-4

16. https://grabcad.com/damian.corgniali-1

17. https://grabcad.com/facundo.cabrera-5

18. https://grabcad.com/luciano.bruno-3

19. https://grabcad.com/bianca.delprato-1

20. https://grabcad.com/marco.nannini-2

21. https://grabcad.com/franco.pizarro-1

22. https://grabcad.com/benjamin.cinto-2 (1st prize of the challenge)

23. https://grabcad.com/franco.ozerio-1

24. https://grabcad.com/enzo.rosendo-1

25. https://grabcad.com/matias.gasparotti-2

PS: another group of new users will enter this semester, and also another during the second semester. You will be able to corroborate that none of them (with rare exceptions) follow me or like my models, because I always tell them: they already know my name and where to find my work, therefore, they do not need to follow me on GC (although I do value the comments that induce some learning from my models or tutorials, which are always directed at them).

It is true even in France, I see that it seems to be a little similar also in Argentina certainly not only, that transmission with a lot of pedagogy and passion is rare, yet the educational structures are there to support all. But in the end everything will relate to the human who must officiate and it's true that I was more often at the back of the class waiting for the bell than in front of me with wide eyes and open ears... At the same time I don't throw away don't blame teachers, it's not an easy job when students aren't motivated, it must be quite discouraging... I think your students are in good hands and they're very lucky!

I'm glad to have seen this encouraging topic of discussion, and it sparked an idea to me.

Despite the absence of a moderator, managing or eliminating spam might seem challenging, but fostering a collective positive mindset among all contributors may make the community more self-sustaining.

Just my thoughts on the matter.

Hi Derrick!

I agree with you. A positive action is something that is entirely in our hands (under our control) and nothing prevents us from doing it.

It's simply about "reinforcing the good side" instead of "fighting the bad side" (which is something that should continue to be done, to the extent possible, but which is not in the hands of GC users for now).

Greetings!

REALLY GREAT SUGGESTION!

As a member of GC, start from what we can do.

Thank you very much @Vic Chen!

I trust that this will be a way to protect and improve the GrabCAD community because "radical and immediate" solutions simply do not exist (or at least, they are not within our reach).

In this link the list of design proposals from my students (and new GrabCAD users) was updated:

https://grabcad.com/tutorials/creativity-in-engineering-part-4-cpdc-results

Some reflections and lessons learned and to be learned have also been added!

In the short term we hope to have the reflections of the students and teachers themselves, as well as the comments of other GrabCAD users (and hopefully also the judges of the challenge used as the basis for this design practice!).

I am infinitely grateful for the support you have given my students with your likes and valuable comments.

Kind regards!

Marcelo

PS: the contribution was very modest, but very real. We have 23 new "handmade and good quality" models plus an equal number of "valuable new users" for GrabCAD!