Fwd: Environmental app building workshop in Science Gallery

[Eugene Eichelberger]

In case you were not in last Saturday's session. Here is you chance to be a software tester and help the environment:

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From: Lucy Whitaker <lucy.w...@sciencegallery.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Subject: Environmental app building workshop in Science Gallery



Hi,


Hope you're well this morning.

Alison here in Science Gallery gave me your email, I hope that's okay. I'm getting in touch with you today in regards our upcoming Dublin Green Watch workshops on Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th August, aimed at 12-15 year olds. We thought these workshops may be of interest to the Coder Dojo boys and girls because of its technological nature. A brief description:

 

Everybody knows how important it is to reduce the amount of energy we use and the amount of waste we produce. Even if YOU'RE doing your very best, how do you keep track of how much energy everybody else is using? What about office buildings that leave their lights on all night? Buses idling with their engines on? Does your school leave windows open when they have the heating on? And how do we highlight positive things like recycling drives, car-boot sales and repair workshops?

 

It's time to question how we can make our cities greener!

 

Join us at the Dublin Green Watch workshop where we will turn YOU, the citizen, into a sensor and create a dynamic green map of Dublin. Along with TCD and Intel researchers, we'll identify the best way to capture the environmental friendliness of neighborhoods and streets. Based on this, we'll create a smartphone and tablet app that we will use to sense and collect data and ultimately make a real-time green map of Dublin, highlighting greener neighborhoods. Learn how crowd-sourcing can put pressure on people, businesses and corporations to take responsibility for their ecological footprint, and how it can highlight positive alternatives.

 

These workshops are free, but places need to be booked. These are the event pages, there is information and a booking link to be found there:

Link to Tuesday's workshop: http://sciencegallery.com/events/2012/08/dublin-green-watch-workshop-12-15-year-olds-tuesday

Link to Wednesday's workshop: http://sciencegallery.com/events/2012/08/dublin-green-watch-workshop-12-15-year-olds-wednesday

We'd be very grateful if you could pass this on to anyone you think may be interested in attending, we'd love to have the CD guys along!

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any comments or questions.

Thanks, and all the best,

LUCY WHITAKER

                                                                      

 

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