Three years ago my now 14 year old daughter and I started a business selling 3D printed accessories out of our home. It quickly turned into a full blown family business and has since paid for her college education.

Then my daughter started STEM and robotics at her middle school. At the same time we were running a serious print farm at home: ASA, polycarbonate, and other advanced filaments. I'd go help out and find the teachers and students struggling with basic PLA on consumer printers, using glue sticks with mixed results. Frustrated kids, frustrated teachers.

I knew exactly what they needed because we were running it at home every day. They needed excellent performance, ease of use, and something safe enough that their printers worked without so much fuss.

So I set out to build it. The goal was specific: an adhesive that held like the most premium products on the market, released better, and was non-flammable and safe for classroom use. Those weren't marketing constraints. They were hard requirements from day one because we always intended to support school STEM programs with free product.

Those constraints drove some serious engineering decisions. The chemistry we landed on required an application method that nobody had done before, and that method turned out to be one of our greatest assets. We filed a patent on it.

What we ended up with works in a serious print farm and a middle school robotics club. Same product. Same results. That was always the goal.

We're a small company. Veteran owned, built entirely in-house, and we donate product to middle and high school STEM programs because we think the next generation of makers deserves tools that work without fuss.