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H.R. 4386 115th Congress House

Fab Lab Classroom Modernization Act

Official title: To establish a grant program that encourages States to establish subgrant programs that encourage recipients to create, maintain, and improve digital fabrication laboratories, and for other purposes.

Introduced: November 14, 2017 See on congress.gov
Education Advanced technology and technological innovationsComputers and information technologyDigital mediaEducation programs funding
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Elementary and secondary educationProduct development and innovationScience and engineering educationTeaching, teachers, curricula
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Nov 14, 2017
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 Latest action November 14, 2017

Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Fab Lab Classroom Modernization Act

This bill authorizes the Department of Education to award grants for FY2019-FY2023 to states for local educational agencies to purchase digital-fabrication laboratory equipment or to provide professional development related to incorporating a digital-fabrication laboratory into the curriculum. A digital-fabrication laboratory is a high-technology workspace that includes equipment such as three-dimensional printers and laser engravers.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4386: Fab Lab Classroom Modernization Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4386/
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"H.R. 4386: Fab Lab Classroom Modernization Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4386/.
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H.R. 4386, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4386/.
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