What happened in February: The Day 3D Sets Was Visited by 26 Tiny Engineers
24. 2. 2026
Some days in the office start quietly. A coffee, a checklist, a printer humming in the background. And then there are days when the door opens and suddenly your workspace fills with twenty-six curious second-graders who treat every model, every hinge, and every little opening door or hatch as if it were the most fascinating thing on the planet. ☺️
It Started as a Simple School Project
Emma, the daughter of our teammate Honza, had a school assignment called “What Do Your Parents Do?”. Instead of a drawing or a short talk, her class decided to visit real workplaces.
So one morning, Honza walked into the office… with an entire crowd of tiny “engineers” behind him. For exactly two seconds, the room was peaceful – and then curiosity exploded.
Meet Honza – One of the Technical Minds Shaping How Our Models Move
Honza is part of the technical core of 3D Sets. If a model has doors that open, hatches that lift, bonnets that tilt, or little mechanisms that click, chances are Honza helped shape how they work.
But on this day, he wasn’t testing or tweaking anything. He was guiding two dozen excited kids through the small universe of 3D printing.
What Kids Really Care About
While the teachers wanted to understand how the printer works – slicing, filament, motion paths – the children cared about something completely different:
What opens?
What moves?
What clicks?
And of course: “Can you print SIX SEVEN?”
Honza still smiles when he talks about it:
“A totally random question, but it made my day.
Who wouldn’t be able to print the numbers 6 and 7?”
Sometimes simplicity wins.
Printers, Questions, and a Small Stampede
The printers were hypnotizing. Honza tried explaining the process, but the moment a model clicked or a door opened, the explanation didn’t stand a chance.
The kids rushed from one model to another, testing every small moving part again and again.
Mini Cars, Maximum Excitement
As a surprise, every child received a tiny yellow 3D Sets mini car charm – printed on our MMU.
Instant success.
A few were turned into keychains within minutes. One boy even announced, with full seriousness: “I’m never losing this.”
Later, one of the teachers wrote to us: “Thank you again for your kindness — the kids were truly excited.”
Did It Change Anything?
After everyone left, we asked Honza whether the visit changed how he sees his work. He thought for a moment:
“Not really – more like it confirmed we’re doing something right.
When you see kids light up over the smallest moving detail, you know it matters.”
And he’s right. Sometimes the best feedback comes from the smallest critics.
It’s not every day that the 3D Sets office turns into a mini science center. Or that our models meet their youngest fans. But days like these – curious and wonderfully honest – are the ones we remember.
A warm thank you to Emma and her class for their curiosity, questions, and the joy they brought into our workspace.
And thanks to Honza for letting us share this moment in our What Happened in… series.
See you in the next story.
