TRAVERSE CITY — This week, our station has been featuring stories from the Northwest Michigan Housing Summit, including one about the state of homelessness in the Traverse City area, and another about how city leaders want to encourage smaller buildings on existing lots .

9 and 10 News spoke with researchers at Northwestern Michigan College who think they have a solution for both of these problems.

NMC has introduced a new program to help teach students how to operate 3-D concrete printers. That makes them the first college in the country to offer classes like this.

“We wanted to keep innovation at the forefront of our students, and we thought this was a great avenue to go down. ”

The machine they are working with was designed in Detroit and uses quick-drying concrete to lay out te

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