Photo courtesy of the Digital Harbor Foundation. Outside, it’s a typical Baltimore City summer day, with soaring temperatures and shirt-soaking humidity. But step into a former rec center at 1045 Light Street in the heart of Federal Hill, peek into any air-conditioned classroom and, save for the shorts and T-shirts worn by kids from 7 through 17—many of whom peer studiously into computer screens—the oppressive heat seems a million miles away. In one of the classrooms, a spacious room with couches on one end and a cluster of computer stations in the other, a dozen or so gangly teens, mostly boys, huddle around a single computer. “Show me your design,” instructs the camp counselor. A brave adolescent boy steps forward and explains the aircraft design he constructed on the computer, which he then attempted to print with the center’s 3-D printer. It didn’t go as planned—the tiny plastic-looking object the printer spat… Read More