The last three years have seen a blossoming of partnership between British Archaeology and Waterloo University. Starting with a low-key exchange involving four students in 2023, each year further cohorts of students arrived in Yorkshire with one suite of skills and departed with a portfolio of attainments, new skills and expertise. This programme does not stop now  after our first three years, indeed we have plans for a new collaboration on a Roman excavation in 2026. However, we started in a more measured manner in the Spring of 2023 with Dr Steve Sherlock, Heritage Advisor for National Highways Lower Thames Crossing Project, talking with Professor Steve Bednarski about producing 3d scans of Archaeological finds for public benefit. The Dragenlab at Waterloo University in Canada have been doing scans and reconstruction of finds since 2019, whilst concurrently museums in the UK were looking for quality reproductions of objects that are tactile and affordable for schools.