I talked a little at the meeting about The Forge Initiative (formerly Wake Robotics) and what it does. Here are some upcoming events that might be interesting for TriEmbed people. <div><br></div><div>Glen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: Linda Whipker <<a href="mailto:lwhipker@gmail.com">lwhipker@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 12:47 AM<br>Subject: [PyroTech] Outreaches coming up the next 3 Saturdays!<br>To: TFD Members <<a href="mailto:tfd-members@googlegroups.com">tfd-members@googlegroups.com</a>>, PyroTech <<a href="mailto:pyrotech@googlegroups.com">pyrotech@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_forwarded"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Some fun, interesting outreaches coming up!  Sign up on the logistics spreadsheet!</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cFA33TxLr4Ayn0_zEAQUKM0S0teOpGmR5q5pScNoqAI/edit#gid=1320943971" target="_blank">TFD 2015 2016 Logistics Spreadsheet for Outreach and Forge Events</a> <br></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">This Saturday (April 16), Marbles Kids Museum </font>asked us to partner with them in helping get people excited about coding. </font></b></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Saturday, 1 to 4 (set up at 12:30)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.marbleskidsmuseum.org/kidscode" target="_blank">https://www.marbleskidsmuseum.org/kidscode</a><br></font></div><div><ul><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">3 tables of 3D printing and TinkerCAD</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1 table of Ken, Humanoid Robot if possible</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I can ask about room for other robot/programming if students are interested -- sign up on the logistics spreadsheet</font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">PLUS, because they think we are expert at tech outreach, they've asked us to help 6 to 10 yo's use some Lenovo-donated laptops to get them started coding using the following programs (they're fun -- try them!)...</font></li><li><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">-</span><a href="https://bitsbox.com/hoc2015.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">BITSBOX </span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> You're about to make your own apps! Please use your new super powers wisely.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-</span><a href="http://www.scratchjr.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ScratchJr</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-</span><a href="https://code.org/starwars" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Code.Org StarWars </span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://studio.code.org/s/frozen/stage/1/puzzle/1" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Code.org Frozen puzzle</a></span></p></li></ul><div><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:17.94px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><br></span></font></div></font></span></li><li><div><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:17.94px">Who can help?  Anyone who can run some of the programs above, or is ready to talk about 3D printing or Ken. If you'd like to learn to talk about these, please sign up and we'll incorporate you!</span></font></div></li></ul><div><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><b><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Next Saturday (April 23), IEEE is bringing their bra</font><font face="Arial">nd new MOVE truck to Hopewell for us to tour</font></font></b><font face="Arial"> -- plus we're inviting anyone from the public and IEEE members who would like to see it. The truck is very cool -- and very new -- and is set up to help in case of disasters. You can see more about it here:</font></span></font></div></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><a href="http://theinstitute.ieee.org/career-and-education/preuniversity-education/ieee-partners-with-red-cross-to-help-during-natural-disasters" target="_blank">http://theinstitute.ieee.org/career-and-education/preuniversity-education/ieee-partners-with-red-cross-to-help-during-natural-disasters</a></span><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ieeeusamove/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ieeeusamove/</a></span><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px">1:00 to 4:30 (MOVE truck is 1:30 to 4:00)</span></font></div><div><ul><li><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px">Sign up if you're interested in coming to see the MOVE truck</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px">Also sign up if you're able to give people tours, talk about Ken, and maybe get them interested in playing with Rube Goldberg</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px">And, an open forge for anyone who wants to be working on other projects</span></font></li></ul></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><b><font size="4">The FOLLOWING Saturday (April 30), we're partnering with the Museum of Life & Science</font> i</b>n Durham to do a family-oriented 3D printer workshop. We're going to take some 3D printers, water color bot, and maybe some pancake bots. If you're interested in helping with a workshop with any of these printers/bots sign up on the spreadsheet. Even if you just want to learn how to work with these printers.  Final details are still to be worked out on what the specific program will look like.</span></font></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><div><span style="line-height:20.24px">Tinker Tech Family Workshop: 3D Printing</span></div></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><div><span style="line-height:20.24px">04/30/2016, 10:30 AM to Noon  (set up 10:00)</span></div></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><a href="http://www.lifeandscience.org/calendar/entry/tinker-416/instance/4-30-2016" target="_blank">http://www.lifeandscience.org/calendar/entry/tinker-416/instance/4-30-2016</a> </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><br></span></font></div></blockquote><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><b>Long range planning:</b></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px">In May, we'll be hosting a Community Chain Reaction (info almost complete here: <a href="http://theforgedowntown.org/events/communitychainreaction" target="_blank">http://theforgedowntown.org/events/communitychainreaction</a></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px">Create a team, volunteer, lots of opportunities)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px">In May we'll also be offering some Musical Rube Goldberg workshops to some middle school groups on the 19th to the 21st (Thurs/Fri/Sat)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px">And...</span></font></div><div><ul><li><span style="line-height:20.24px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Yes, there will be 2 FLL camps -- on the 3rd week of June; one the 2nd week of August.</span><br></li><li><span style="line-height:20.24px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Yes, we will be doing library outreaches -- 4 of them in June/July</span><br></li><li><span style="line-height:20.24px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Yes, we will be doing Space Camp Tuesday mornings</span><br></li></ul></div><div><span style="line-height:20.24px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">All outreaches are on the public calendar: <a href="http://theforgedowntown.org/events/upcoming-events" target="_blank">http://theforgedowntown.org/events/upcoming-events</a></span><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px">Linda<br></span></font><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="line-height:20.24px"><br></span></font></div></blockquote></div></div>

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Here is the most recent logistics spreadsheet...<br>
PT 2016 Build Season Logistics Spreadsheet<br>
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