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re:3D’s most celebrated creation, the Gigabot, is an aluminum-framed industrial printer designed to provide practical, cost-effective solutions for multiple industries. The product was an immediate success, with museums, hospitals, and educators among the company’s earliest customers. Care in Times of Crisis When the healthcare community struggled to meet the seemingly insurmountable demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, Snabes put her ingenuity to inspiring use. Her company 3D printed face shields donated to various hospitals and created ventilators for her former colleagues at NASA. Additionally, re:3D was instrumental in providing personal protective equipment to economically disadvantaged communities. Insight From an Innovator Naturally, forward-thinking minds worldwide have sought Snabes’ perspectives on building a leading tech enterprise. To her, thriving as a business owner and creator comes down to a willingness to put everything on the line to make the seemingly unattainable a fruitful reality. “It sounds cliché, but I would say really love what you do,” she shared in a 2017 interview with the job-search site Jobbio. “It’s deeper than that because if you really love
something, you don’t care if you’re living out of your car. You don’t care if you use your retirement or your savings. You don’t care that your friends heckle you about not having a real job. If you’re doing what you love, then every day is a journey, and it’s exciting and it’s worth it. It has to be more than a hobby. Think about something you want to commit your life to because your time is more valuable than anything else, and life is so short.”
HAVE A Laugh When Monopoly Helped Win a War ALLIED POWERS OUTWITTED THE ENEMY, ONE GAME AT A TIME
Most people know Monopoly as the game that ruins friendships over Park Place. But during World War II, it played a far nobler role: helping Allied soldiers escape from German POW camps.
The British Secret Service turned Monopoly into a top-
secret escape kit. Smuggling noisy paper maps without tipping off the
guards was too risky, so they used strong and silent silk. The British turned to John Waddington Ltd., the licensed Monopoly manufacturer in the UK, who also happened to be an expert in silk printing.
Along with silk maps, rigged Monopoly sets also held metal files, compasses, and real currency hidden beneath the play money. Thanks to the Red Cross, these “games” were slipped into POW camps as humanitarian aid packages. Over 35,000 POWs escaped German camps — many with the help of these Monopoly sets. So, next time you pass “Go,” just remember Monopoly once helped people pass barbed wire.
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