RE: {Asheville Makers} Vance Elem science week - help?

[Ian Baillie]

I am very interested in being involved in this. This is where I would like to see our group, as mentors to the community, bringing making and STEAM to everyone.

                   Ian

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From: Kari Richmond
Sent: ‎12/‎8/‎2014 10:20 AM
To: ashevil...@googlegroups.com
Subject: {Asheville Makers} Vance Elem science week - help?

Hi everyone,

I'm excited to be a new member of this group!  I'm a mom of a making-things-obsessed 4th grade boy, so I'm looking forward to finding opportunities for him to meet other makers and get inspiration and info about how to make things work.

Also, I'm working with some other parents to increase experiential science opportunities at Vance Elementary.  We are looking for grade specific STEAM programs that can come to school the week of April 13, 2015.  Would any of you be interested in making a presentation about your projects?  Something along the lines of bringing in that budget Segway thing and showing the kids how it's put together... or building those paper rockets... or anything else!  If anyone is interested (individually or as group), I'd like to add you to the list of STEAM presentation options that we're going to give to teachers at Vance. The teachers will then identify their wishes for programming for their grade.  We are open to all kinds of partnerships-formal presentations, classroom workshops, help with STEAM presentations, etc.  The teachers can determine what will work for their groups, but the idea is to get the conversations started.

If you're interested, please send me the following information:
Contact person
phone
email
program name
grade level(s)   
cost (or if you'd considering doing a presentation as a donation to the school)
availability (the week of April 13? other times? general time of day?)

You can e-mail me offlist at karirichmond at charter dot net.
We'll be presenting the list to Vance teachers in about a week, so please let me know as soon as you can.

Thanks so much for considering this!
Kari Richmond
828-545-0990

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[Avi Silverman]

Agreed, and time permitting, I would love to be involved as well. Ian, would you mind being the contact / go to person for this? Those of us that are interested can discuss what we want to do / bring.

[Ian Baillie]

I need to pull some weight, sure, make me the point of contact.

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From: Avi Silverman
Sent: ‎12/‎8/‎2014 12:51 PM
To: ashevil...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: {Asheville Makers} Vance Elem science week - help?

[Kari Richmond]

Sweet, you guys!  That is really lovely!  Ian, could you e-mail me at karirichmond at charter dot net with your e-mail address and phone number?  Also, if you know of any particular time constraints or have particular programming ideas (like if you'd like to stick to a particular age group or if you want to do the paper rockets or something else), let me know those as well.  Feel free to take some time to discuss ideas here, but I think teachers are more likely to respond if there is some specific idea/plan on the list.  I really appreciate this; I know some activity with you could be a huge inspiration to kids whose science instruction is relatively limited to class discussion and reading.

[Nicholas Rake]

Hey, not meaning to hijack this thread, but I got an offer for us to do a week long STEAM presentation for Hall Fletcher Elementary from their Assistant Principal as well. I'm away from the contact details right now, I'll post more info later. Let's focus on brainstorming beyond rockets at this week's meeting. I think we could additionally pull circuit scribe, some programming, and some other interactive papercrafts into a curriculum.