MMT Chats: It’s Time to Play … The Moldmaker Card Game! Yes, a Game to Educate and Entertain

^{This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.}

I found out about this Mouldmaker card game from Ralf Durrwachter of the VDWF and once I got my hand on a deck and played a round at home, I just had to connect with the creator to find out where the motivation came from, the creative process for developing a card game and other related educational projects he is working on.  Profession Ritter also shares his perspective on the future of education & training in moldmaking in Germany and worldwide, as well as who he believes our future mold builders will need to be.

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Here are just a few tidbits from this conversation to whet your appetite for our full conversation:

• From mechanical engineering to plastics to obtained PhD to mass production to start-up company to automotive development to academia
• Not game based or only some elements, it is a real game.
• The base elements of a mold need to be taught. This is missing.
• A mold from the outside is a boring piece of metal but from the inside it is a fascinating technical world!
• Together with graduate class student Professor Ritter did research on games before launching this card game.
• School Tool is a teaching world based on very small molds (look for some show-n-tell during this conversation)—includes small molds teach the basics.
• Created prototypes to work through the game development process.
• School Tool HC (handcrafted) mold projects with tutorials and teaching material to teach students and apprentices.
• Professor Ritter set out to prove he could make a mold with only minimal manual equipment.
• Added initiative is to teach about recycled plastics.
• And so much more!

For the full quick chat, watch above, and for more MMT Chats, click here.

This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently.