Alumni Spotlight: Ellie Weinstein '15 Thinks Outside the Box (of Chocolates)

What happens when your teacher challenges you to create something that doesn't exist? You think outside the box (of chocolates)! That's what Ellie Weinstein '15 did at SCH under the tutelage of Peter Randall, Engineering and Robotics Department chair. In response to Mr. Randall's challenge, she designed a 3-D chocolate printer here at SCH and continued her work as a mechanical engineering student at the University of Pennsylvania. Now, five years later, she's ready to patent and sell the Cocoa Press 3-D printer, which uses food-grade stainless steel, has a climate-controlled enclosure, and includes chocolate cartridges to print your own chocolates, with logos if you so choose!

"It's pretty exciting. The world of engineering is just allowing you to figure out how to solve problems so it translates into so many different fields, even if you don't stick to engineering in the long term," said Weinstein who is still involved at SCH as a mentor to the robotics team.

Read the story in The Chestnut Hill Local, here.