--- # =========================================================================== # CUSTOMER STORY - Media High School of Copenhagen (Kobenhavns Mediegymnasium) # The FIRST school story (seeds the /testimonials/schools segment) and a video # story. Built to .ai/testimonials/doctrine.md: interview, not narration - the # customer's own (translated) words carry the claims; our prose is a thin spine. # # ANGLE (confirmed by Albert 2026-06-14, NOT the roster's "queue approval" # hypothesis): accessibility. The school was SimplyPrint's first school; the # printers gathered dust because only a couple of teachers and a few keen # students knew the workflow. SimplyPrint took 3D printing from a scary, # specialist thing to something every teacher and every subject could embrace. # # SOURCES (see consent): the school's existing /schools-page testimonials # (Dietz, Simon Moe, Rebecca Strange - already consented + published) + the # school's own Danish testimonial video (permission to use + translate # confirmed). Quotes are the trimmed, translated core - nothing invented. # # DB PROVENANCE (org_id 1 - literally the first account): joined/first print # Jan 2020, still printing this month (last print 2026-06-04), ~10 active # printers (21 over time). Fleet per Albert: Creality CR-10S, then Prusa MK3S+, # later Bambu Lab P2S. Print figures EXCLUDE jobs without a real start+end and # exclude staff/founder accounts per Albert (user_id 1, all Carl Hoeck + # Mathias Labori accounts: 1,3,6,81,156,157,790,825): 9,868 completed prints # by 381 distinct students/teachers. Shown rounded down ("9,800+", "381"). # =========================================================================== # Identity title: "From gathering dust to every classroom: 3D printing for all at the Media High School of Copenhagen" slug: copenhagen-media-high-school-3d-printing description: "The Media High School of Copenhagen was SimplyPrint's very first school. It took its 3D printers from gathering dust to 9,800+ prints by 381 students and teachers." # Casting customer: Media High School of Copenhagen segment: schools sub_persona: k12-classroom angle: "From printers gathering dust to every teacher and every subject - the accessibility story" hero_feature: OneClickPrint # Snapshot box region: "Copenhagen, Denmark" fleet_size: "~10 printers" brands: "Creality CR-10S, Prusa MK3S+, later Bambu Lab P2S" since: "2020" customer_url: https://www.nextkbh.dk/gymnasier/koebenhavns-mediegymnasium # plan: OMITTED - not cleanly verifiable as a public label (see SpeakerBee). # Oversized counterfactual hero quote - the principal's before/after, the line # the whole page turns on. From the school's published /schools testimonial. hero_quote: quote: "Before SimplyPrint, our 3D printers were collecting dust. Now everyone can join in, and every teacher has the courage to include it in their teaching." attribution: "Rasmus Dietz, principal, Media High School of Copenhagen" # Metric strip - 3 real, sourced numbers (units/nouns on every row). metrics: - label: "People who've run prints" before: "A handful" after: "381" - label: "Prints completed" value: "9,800+" captured: "since 2020, and counting" - label: "Joined SimplyPrint" value: "2020 - our first school" # Without / with table (the visceral before/after) - units/nouns on every row. before_with: - label: "Who could print" without: "A couple of teachers and a few keen students" with: "381 students and teachers, across subjects" - label: "The printers" without: "Gathering dust in a side room" with: "9,800+ prints since 2020" - label: "To get started" without: "Find the one teacher who knew the workflow" with: "Upload a model, click print" - label: "For a non-technical teacher" without: "No time to learn slicing or babysit machines" with: "Printing fits into their own subject" - label: "3D printing felt" without: "A scary, specialist thing" with: "Something every class can embrace" # Media - real frames from the school's own video (students shown from behind / # at a distance; interviewees consented to the video). Bare filenames resolve # under i/landing/testimonials/schools//. Hero is a REAL scene (students # self-serving at a printer), never the og card. hero_image: kmg-students-at-3d-printer.jpg photos: - src: kmg-student-classroom.jpg alt: "A student at the Media High School of Copenhagen talking about their first time 3D printing" caption: "A first-time printer - one of 381 students and teachers who've now run prints at the school." - src: kmg-3d-printer-closeup.jpg alt: "Close-up of a 3D printer toolhead in the school's lab" caption: "From a Creality CR-10S to Prusa MK3S+ machines to Bambu Lab P2S - SimplyPrint ran the whole mix from one place." # Pull quotes (rendered with the customers' real headshots from the /schools # page - absolute CDN URLs, so they resolve outside the testimonial folder). pull_quotes: - quote: "I'd never 3D printed before, so I'd taken some distance from it. But when I tried it, it was just simple - it worked, and it held me through the whole process." attribution: "Rebecca Strange, student" headshot: https://cdn.simplyprint.io/i/static/schools_page/testemonials/rebecca_strange.jpg - quote: "I'm a technical person, I'm good at programming, but I'm not a workshop manager, and I don't have time to run the school's machines. They need to fit naturally into whatever the students want to make in their subjects." attribution: "Simon Moe, teacher of digital technology" headshot: https://cdn.simplyprint.io/i/static/schools_page/testemonials/simon_moe.jpg # Video - the school's own clip on YouTube ("[Danish] SimplyPrint i skolen"). # Shown in the hero top-right, like SpeakerBee (video_position: hero); it's in # Danish, so the translated quotes carry the story for an international reader. # hero_image stays set as the /testimonials card thumbnail (the video takes the # on-page hero slot), and that students-at-printer shot is distributed inline. video_youtube_id: c_Owu_4SEzk video_position: hero # SEO / schema og_image: https://cdn.simplyprint.io/i/landing/testimonials/schools/copenhagen-media-high-school-3d-printing/og.jpg og_image_alt: "Media High School of Copenhagen - how SimplyPrint took its 3D printers from gathering dust to every classroom" schema: Article last_modified: 2026-06-14 published: 2026-06-14 # Feature-quote cards - each pairs a live /features page with one verbatim # (translated) customer line. One-click print is the hero; slicer, multi-user # and the queue are the supporting cards. No line is reused from the pull quotes. feature_quotes: - feature: OneClickPrint quote: "It worked exactly like printing on a normal printer." - feature: Slicer quote: "I could understand what was happening the whole way through." - feature: MultipleUsers quote: "SimplyPrint makes it more welcoming to walk into the room where these machines are and get started, no matter who you are." - feature: PrintQueue quote: "Students came down to the lab, sometimes without me even knowing, and printed all sorts of things for their prototypes." # Web of features + conversion related_features: - MainSiteApp\Controllers\Frontpage\Features\OneClickPrintFeatureController - MainSiteApp\Controllers\Frontpage\Features\SlicerFeatureController - MainSiteApp\Controllers\Frontpage\Features\MultipleUsersFeatureController - MainSiteApp\Controllers\Frontpage\Features\PrintQueueFeatureController related_testimonials: - speakerbee-3d-printing-for-business cta_inline: { text: "Start free, no credit card", url: "/panel/signup" } cta_final: { text: "Start free, no credit card", url: "/panel/signup" } # AI search / GEO tldr: | The Media High School of Copenhagen (Kobenhavns Mediegymnasium) was the first school to use SimplyPrint. Its 3D printers used to gather dust because only a couple of teachers and a few keen students knew how to drive them. SimplyPrint made printing as easy as a normal printer, so today 381 students and teachers have run more than 9,800 prints across the curriculum. consent: "DRAFT (international audience, first school story). Quotes are drawn from (1) the school's testimonials already published on the SimplyPrint /schools page - principal Rasmus Dietz, teacher Simon Moe, student Rebecca Strange (consented + live) - and (2) the school's own testimonial video, which Albert confirmed on 2026-06-14 we have permission to use, translate and clean up. PROVENANCE: the student's 'held my hand / never printed before' line is a verbatim match to Rebecca Strange's published quote; the other student lines are from the same video segment and attributed to Rebecca - re-confirm if a second student features. Scene photos are frames from that video. Confirm exact printer brand/count with the school before specifying them, and get a final sign-off on the assembled page." --- The [Media High School of Copenhagen](https://www.nextkbh.dk/gymnasier/koebenhavns-mediegymnasium) (Kobenhavns Mediegymnasium, part of NEXT) is an upper-secondary school in the centre of Copenhagen. It was also the very first school to run on SimplyPrint, back in 2020. Today its students and teachers have completed more than 9,800 prints between them. It did not start that way. For a long time, the school's 3D printers mostly gathered dust. *The school's own video is at the top of this page. It's in Danish; the quotes throughout are translated from it, used with the school's permission.* ## The challenge: printers nobody had time to learn The printers were not the problem, and wanting to use them was not the problem either. The barrier was everything in between. Turning an idea into a real print meant learning slicing software, and the teachers, reasonably, had other things to do. So the machines sat in a side room, and the know-how pooled in a few people. :::image src="https://cdn.simplyprint.io/i/landing/testimonials/schools/copenhagen-media-high-school-3d-printing/kmg-3d-printer-lab.jpg" alt="A long workshop table lined with open-frame 3D printers at the Media High School of Copenhagen, a student seated at the far end" caption="Inside the school's printer lab. For years, machines like these mostly gathered dust." ::: A couple of teachers became the unofficial go-to for anything 3D, and a few keen students became the only ones who really knew the workflow. For everyone else the machines stayed a slightly intimidating, specialist thing. Plenty of good ideas never left the screen, because the route from idea to printed part ran through one busy person. ## The turning point: as easy as a normal printer SimplyPrint changed the route, not the printers. Instead of installing and learning a slicer, anyone at the school can open SimplyPrint in a browser, upload a model and click print. The hard decisions are already made, and the software walks a first-timer through the rest. :::image src="https://cdn.simplyprint.io/i/landing/testimonials/schools/copenhagen-media-high-school-3d-printing/kmg-students-at-3d-printer.jpg" alt="Two students at the Media High School of Copenhagen starting a print from a laptop next to a 3D printer, the SimplyPrint dashboard open on screen" caption="Students starting a print themselves, no specialist required - SimplyPrint open on the laptop, the printer right beside them." ::: That mattered most to the people who had kept their distance. Rebecca Strange had never printed before and had deliberately steered clear of it, and the change for her was simply that it worked, first try. :::image src="https://cdn.simplyprint.io/i/landing/testimonials/schools/copenhagen-media-high-school-3d-printing/kmg-teacher-digital-technology.jpg" alt="A digital-technology teacher gesturing while talking in the school's 3D printer lab" caption="3D printing now fits into everyday lessons, not just a specialist few." ::: It mattered to the teachers, too, for the opposite reason. A teacher like Simon Moe, who teaches digital technology, is a programmer, not a workshop manager, and he had neither the time nor the wish to become the school's machine operator. SimplyPrint meant he did not have to be one for the printers to get used. ## What students actually make Once printing was approachable, it started showing up inside real projects. In one of Simon's digital-technology briefs, students had to design a chindogu - a Japanese-style gadget that looks useful but is not - and 3D-print a working prototype. Students drifted down to the lab on their own to print the parts they needed. > We came up with an ice-cube tray that shapes a cup of ice. Normally you'd make something like that in metal or silicone, but that's not material you just have at school. 3D printing was a really good way to make a prototype and actually see how it would work. That is the shift in a single example: not a specialist demonstrating a machine, but a student reaching for a printer the way they would reach for any other tool. ## The result: from a side room to every subject The numbers tell the rest. Since 2020, 381 different students and teachers have run prints at the school - more than 9,800 in total - and the printers are still busy today. What used to be concentrated in two or three people is now spread right across the school, which is exactly what the printers were bought for in the first place. And the printers themselves were never the special part. The school ran a Creality CR-10S, then Prusa MK3S+ machines, and later added Bambu Lab P2S printers - and SimplyPrint managed the whole mix from one place. The change was never the machines. It was removing the one thing standing between a person with an idea and a finished print. ## TL;DR The Media High School of Copenhagen was the first school to use SimplyPrint. Its 3D printers used to gather dust because only a couple of teachers and a few keen students knew how to drive them. SimplyPrint made printing as easy as a normal printer, so today 381 students and teachers have run more than 9,800 prints across the curriculum - and the printers are still going.