The days of novelty keychains that don't offer your name are over thanks to Friends Academy’s 3D printing club.

In this eight-week after-school program, students can design their own items–anything from nameplate keychains, jewelry, toys, and even functional musical instruments–using programs Tinkercad and Blender.

Once the items are designed to the students’ specifications—block-by-block, they are printed with the compact Ultimaker 2 3D printer.

The program is offered to third-graders and up. Each grade level gets to design items varying in complexity. According to technology director Christine Moore-Berube, it takes about two classes to complete a design and send it to print.

Under the tutelage of technology integrationist Jonathan Felix, student Nicholas Hutchens printed a character from the Minecraft videogame for a Minecraft chess board.

Sidra Telly made herself a nameplate keychain, making up for all the times that souvenir shops skipped over her name while Audrey Wallace made a heart-shaped friendship necklace that can be split in half.

Moore-Berube instructs one of the 3D printing classes with the hope that it will encourage more female students toward science and technology.

Whether it be mini-unicorns or pendants, “I’m open to whatever they want to make,” Moore-Berube said.