23 Nov
2015
23 Nov
'15
2:54 p.m.
awesome jake. just without having brought caitlin into the space yet
does anyone have any objection to offering these students standing
access friday mornings to work on robots? I could come tomorrow and
meet if she's coming to the space. Is this the kind of thing where we
feel we would prefer she become a member so none of us has to be there
every friday morning? I would be happy to meet once or twice but can't
commit to a standing weekday obligation.
On 2015-11-23 11:29, Jake wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015, hol(a)gaskill.com wrote:
this would be spot on with our mission. have you
talked to caitlin
since?
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From caitlin.cruz(a)cvcorps.org Fri Nov 20 08:17:42 2015
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:08:50 +0000
From: Caitlin Cruz <caitlin.cruz(a)cvcorps.org>
To: 'Jake' <jake(a)spaz.org>
Subject: RE: [sudo-info] possible partnerships opportunity
Hello Jake,
Thank you for getting back to me. We would love to come check out the
Sudoroom and see your robot in action. Let me tell you a little more
about us. Civicorps is a charter school as I said in West Oakland but
we are really more of a youth development agency. We work with youth
from 18-26 to help them work towards their high school diploma. We
have both academic and work training components and our students do
conservation work all around the area. Our students graduate based on
a portfolio system and their requirements include various writing,
projects, public speaking and presentation skills, community service
and positive work experience as well as traditional testing. A little
over a year and a half ago I got stuck on the idea of bringing more
technology and maker projects into our curriculum. I have been
experimenting with electronics and robotics (and a small bit of
programming) during the 3 hour Friday seminar that I teach.
Currently, we are doing a robotics !
seminar and I am using the Arduino platform to give students a taste
of programming. We assembled small electronic cars that can be made
to be Arduino compatable and our next step is to get them up and
running with some code. This is the second time I have done the
seminar and its evolving. I have also taught basic electronics twice
and plan on doing a code seminar in December.
All of this said, I have to admit that I am not really a techy. I'm
trying to learn as I go and mostly tapping open source communities and
trying to empower students to do so as well.
This is what I am interested in for this term: I would like to my
students on a field trip on Friday December 11 to give them a taste of
what is going on in their community in terms of robotics and tech.
The Sudoroom was my first thought since you guys are fully run by
community members and embody the spirit of citizen science. The
seminar runs from 9:30-12:30 on Fridays and I have 12 students. This
may not be a time that you can host us but I would still love to hear
more about what you do and talk about how we can work together.
I am also interested in coming next Tuesday night to check out
Hardware hacking and I will try to bring some students along. I am
sending a link to Civicorps web page so you can read a little more
about our amazing students. I would also be happy to show you around
some time if you are interested in coming by to see us
http://www.cvcorps.org/
Thank you
Caitlin Cruz
Science Teacher
Civicorps
101 Myrtle St.
Oakland, CA 94607
www.cvcorps.org