Mayku Vacuum Forming

Using a vacuum former is a great chance to combine curriculum subjects with a practical introduction to industry and manufacturing skills that students may need in later life. You can use a vacuum former in many areas within education whether its creating food moulds, making models in design tech or creating props for drama, a vacuum former is an immensely versatile machine that can help elevate your lessons.

The Formbox is significantly cheaper and more mobile than other vacuum formers on the market. You can easily fold up and move the Formbox between classrooms rather than having it in one fixed place. The Mayku formbox also helps with the following:

• Make Complicated Ideas Tangible - When ideas from maths and science are applied to making - children engage with theory in a more direct way. This deepens their understanding and aids their retention and engagement.
• Teach Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Children can use the FormBox to quickly create batches of professional products with almost no training. Once they start building their own businesses at school who knows where that will take them.
• Build Self-Confidence - When students feel empowered to create their own things they realise their innate creative power. This builds confidence in themselves and their abilities.
• Encourage Collaboration - Creating together is more powerful than working alone. Working on collaborative making projects helps children learn what it means to be a part of a team.
• Increase Motivation - When children realise that they have the ability to make their ideas real they learn the invaluable skill of ‘sticking with it’.
• Explore Basic Design and Manufacturing Principles - The FormBox is a miniature version of a giant mass manufacturing process. With it you can expose students to the whole product creation process all the way through from design to manufacture.