[sudo-discuss] Youth engagement ideas via Ace Monster

Tue Feb 5 12:17:48 PST 2013

Hey people!

During Oakland Wiki's hackerspaces-themed editathon last Sunday, I worked
on the Ace Monster page, and through that discovered "Hacker Scouts", an
amazing mentorship program for young people interested in hacking stuff.
Today while lurking Ace Monster's discuss listserv, I ran into a great
convo on it. If you are interested in developing a youth engagement program
at Sudo Room, these people would definitely be great allies and provide
good solid insight. There already seems to be a collaboration going between
them and Mothership Hackermoms.

(Message 10 is quite beautiful.)

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   7. Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen! (Samantha Cook)
   8. Re: Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
      (Al Jigong Billings)
   9. Re: Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
      (Christopher Cook)
  10. Re: Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen! (Samantha Cook)
  11. Re: Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen! (Lyra)

Message: 7
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 14:44:22 -0800
From: Samantha Cook <sam at hackermoms.org>
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Subject: [AMTD] Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
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Dear Friends,
We have an amazing teen at Hacker Scouts who is trying to fund his
ambitious and amazing project for this year's Maker Faire. Cameron is a 17
year old, homeschooled guy that paints, plays with lightning, makes
electronic mechanical contraptions, writes computer programs, and
builds/fixes computers.His project, the TARDIS tesla is very cool and
ingenious in it's design and entertainment capabilities.

We are proud to be helping Cam reach his Maker Faire goal. As a member of
our Hacker Scouts Guild 001 in Oakland, we have the privilege of seeing him
work on a variety of projects with precision, ingenuity and passion. He
also mentors the younger members of the Guild with compassion and a cool
ability to share knowledge. Between the Hacker Scouts mentors and his
mentors at Arc Attack, he has the support to achieve his dream. We believe
in him and his TARDIS Tesla, and ask you to contribute to his
campaign<http://www.gofundme.com/TARDIS-Tesla>.

You can find his fundraising page here<http://www.gofundme.com/TARDIS-Tesla
>,
and our article about it on the Hacker Scouts
Website<http://hackerscouts.acemonstertoys.org/?p=530>.

Even if you can't contribute, will you help out by sharing this?

Thank you so much for your time,
Samantha Cook, homeschooling mom of 3 and Executive Director, Hacker Scouts

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email: info at hackermoms.org
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:40:38 -0800
From: Al Jigong Billings <albill at openbuddha.com>
To: AMT General Discussion <discuss at lists.acemonstertoys.org>
Subject: Re: [AMTD] Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
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I contributed. I encourage others to do the same.

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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:56:15 -0800
From: Christopher Cook <ccook at dirtylittlemonkey.com>
To: AMT General Discussion <discuss at lists.acemonstertoys.org>
Subject: Re: [AMTD] Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
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Yeah Cam has brought his Tesla coil into the space a few times to show it
off, impressive stuff. I think he and Costa worked together on the laser
cutter to build the control panel for it.

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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:58:52 -0800
From: Samantha Cook <sam at hackermoms.org>
To: AMT General Discussion <discuss at lists.acemonstertoys.org>
Subject: Re: [AMTD] Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
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Thank you! Last night he was speaking so enthusiastically about his
project; I hope we can help him achieve his goal! If anyone is interested
in the current Tesla Coils he has, he will be bringing them to the next
Open Lab on 2/17. Sam

--
web: http://mothership.hackermoms.org
email: info at hackermoms.org
twitter: @hackermoms
eavesdrop: mothershiphackermoms at googlegroups.com
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MothershipHackerMoms

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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:24:44 -0800
From: Lyra <elevin at MIT.EDU>
To: AMT General Discussion <discuss at lists.acemonstertoys.org>
Subject: Re: [AMTD] Maker Faire Fundraiser for Hacker Scout Teen!
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Shared and shown off. Encouraging ambition like this is one of the best
things we can do for the world - Cthulu knows we need more Doctors and Mad
Scientists!

<3
L
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