A collaboration between GDHS and Wallenpaupack School District is literally expanding the Society’s Lenape artifact collection. When GDHS sought to have projectile points in its collection replicated and enlarged, they enlisted the help of David Heckman, computer engineering instructor at Wallenpaupack High School.
Mr. Heckman put two of his high school students to work creating scans of the projectile points. Seniors Tyler Lofberg and Andrew Bromberger created high-definition scans and touched them up, a tedious process taking many hours. The scans were then put into the 3D printer to produce resin replicas of the arrowheads. The students will explain the 3D process and present the results of their work during this program.
GDHS plans to use the replicated versions of these ancient artifacts as part of a Lenape exhibition at the Wallenpaupack South Elementary School. The exhibition will showcase Emily Serpico’s graduate studies work cataloging and displaying the GDHS collection, which has its permanent home in Peggy Bancroft Hall.
