Rewired State for kids

[Em]

Plans are rapidly coming together for a second rewired state for
teens, starting with the kids in the penguin spine-breakers social
network, and then any others who want to come. Will be a weekend, and
May, early June; and in a museum, maybe Science or Natural History...
if we can work out the wireless thing. Presenting at the end to govvy
peeps, Dragon's denners and maybe press. Need volunteers to come along
and either run sessions teaching them how to do stuff, or helping them
build things/generally hanging about.

Want to use the impetus around this to drive on the RS stuff we are
doing and make sure people know that this is not just a one off, that
we are going to geek up the world and be a bit relentless. (One
intention is to affect the curriculum and the skills taught in
school.)

Hope you guys are up for it. We will shove something on the website
and start recruiting people next week; would be great if anyone wants
to give us a hand to yell now, and also spread the word of course.

Laters

[Rob McKinnon]

Great idea! Count me in as a volunteer - I can teach ruby
screen-scrapping techniques, inspire ideas (& be inspired), help out
etc.

Rob

2009/3/21 Em <mul...@googlemail.com>:

[Chris Adams]

Yeah, count me in too.

I don't have a black belt in screenscrape-fu, but I've run creative/
techy workshops with primary school kids and done some related uni
ambassadorial work for secondary schools too.

Incidentally, the 'penguin spine breakers' name is so, so epic.

C


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[Martin Sadler]

Sounds great! Count me in as an interested party / helper.

[Em]

Brilliant! thanks all of you... this is going to be so much fun

[Graham Ashton]

2009/3/21 Em <mul...@googlemail.com>:

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> Brilliant! thanks all of you... this is going to be so much fun

Put me down too.

[Ben Dodson]

I'd be happy to lend a hand with anything that needs doing or I can
give a presentation on jQuery, building an API (including screen
scraping), or just generic data techniques (e.g. how to make API calls
using cURL in PHP, etc)

Look forward to hearing more :-)

Ben

[Chris Roos]

I reckon that sounds like something that I'd be interested in too.

Chris

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[Jonty Wareing]

Yup, I'm in for that, sounds like fun!

--jonty


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[Harry Metcalfe]

Ditto -- I'd love to help.

[Paul Battley]

2009/3/21 Em <mul...@googlemail.com>:

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> Plans are rapidly coming together for a second rewired state for
> teens, starting with the kids in the penguin spine-breakers social

> ...

I'm a bit late to the party, but I'd love to help out too.
Paul.

[Libby Miller]

Em,

(belately, sorry) - I might be up for it depending on dates - can I ask

* is the idea to get kids who already have some coding experience?
* is there an age lower limit (my sister teaches 10-11 year olds
tech; she's getting them to blog at the moment)?

thanks,

Libby

On 21 Mar 2009, at 10:11, Em wrote:

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[Em]

Hi Libby, no worries. Age group 15 to 18 it looks like, ones with
coding experience. WIll challenge them and help them create some great
stuff

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[Edward McCauaghan]

Sounds awesome, I was at the presentation at barcamp london, so I want
to help if I can :-)

I'm a jack of all trades java-y, python-y pick it up as I go along
type and I'm happy to do presenting, hands on assisting, heck even
making the tea if needs be...

I do live in plymouth and work full time, so turning up does depend a
little on logistics and timing

Edward

[tomtt]

Yes, I want in. Can do rails/ruby/hacking/git teaching and general
helping out.

Tom

[Em]

Just to update you all, on nothing really, but the talks with Penguin
are advancing nicely: it is going to the editorial board (made up of
teenagers) in early May; the venue will be agreed hopefully next week,
and then we will know the date. Plans are that we will run midday
Saturday to midday Sunday (ideally) but if too tricky to do sleepover
will just be a one day event. Month: June hopefully or v early July.

Watch this space

E

Masterclasses of skills, languages, help with developing hacks will
run alongside the work the young people will be doing independently,
individually or in groups.

[Tim Dobson]

On Apr 23, 1:13 pm, Em <mulq...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Just to update you all, on nothing really, but the talks with Penguin
> are advancing nicely: it is going to the editorial board (made up of
> teenagers) in early May; the venue will be agreed hopefully next week,
> and then we will know the date. Plans are that we will run midday
> Saturday to midday Sunday (ideally) but if too tricky to do sleepover
> will just be a one day event. Month: June hopefully or v early July.

Sounds awesome

> Watch this space

Sorry I'm even later to the party than everyone else. I'm sure you'll
forgive me!

I'm Co-organiser for DFEY-NW (http://nw.dfey.org) a group of
technically adept young people who care about issues surrounding
freedom and technology among other things.

This definitely sounds like something we would be interested in...
I'll definitely be listening...

If we can help with anything in the North West do let us know - we're
fairly well situated.

Looking forward to hearing more, :)

Tim