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SudoKids is the children’s program at Sudo Room, a community hackerspace in downtown Oakland located at 2141 Broadway. As of Summer 2013, SudoKids happens every Tuesday night from 6-8:30PM (dinner at 5PM). Additionally, SudoKids outdoor chapter happens every Sunday from 10-11:30AM in the garden and yard of a sudoer's home in West Oakland (2429 Adeline). | SudoKids is the children’s program at Sudo Room, a community hackerspace in downtown Oakland located at 2141 Broadway. As of Summer 2013, SudoKids happens every Tuesday night from 6-8:30PM (dinner at 5PM). Additionally, SudoKids outdoor chapter happens every Sunday from 10-11:30AM in the garden and yard of a sudoer's home in West Oakland (2429 Adeline). | ||
==== '''What kinds of things do we do at SudoKids and what are we all about?''' ==== | |||
* We see children as the agents of their own learning and growth. We seek to nurture the awareness, skills, and confidence that allow children to see themselves as empowered agents of their own growth. | * We see children as the agents of their own learning and growth. We seek to nurture the awareness, skills, and confidence that allow children to see themselves as empowered agents of their own growth. | ||
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==== '''Where do we want to go from here?''' ==== | |||
We love our current weekly activities, but we want to grow! Our goal is to have many more kids and families be a part of the Sudo Room community & Sudo Kids. We are working towards expanding our group of facilitators to allow us to work with more children. We are building our curriculum and defining a future direction. In keeping with Sudo Room's commitment to community access, we currently offer Sudo Kids for free. We are all also volunteers and do all of our activities without a budget. As we create our program, we are also keenly aware of the need to identify a funding model that will allow us to expand, mostly to meet our biggest goal: to open a dedicated SudoKids space in the same building as Sudo Room to provide a dedicated child-oriented space within the larger Sudo Room community. As we do this, we are documenting our activities to demonstrate the possibilities of our approach and to help others who are interested in creating empowering learning environments. | We love our current weekly activities, but we want to grow! Our goal is to have many more kids and families be a part of the Sudo Room community & Sudo Kids. We are working towards expanding our group of facilitators to allow us to work with more children. We are building our curriculum and defining a future direction. In keeping with Sudo Room's commitment to community access, we currently offer Sudo Kids for free. We are all also volunteers and do all of our activities without a budget. As we create our program, we are also keenly aware of the need to identify a funding model that will allow us to expand, mostly to meet our biggest goal: to open a dedicated SudoKids space in the same building as Sudo Room to provide a dedicated child-oriented space within the larger Sudo Room community. As we do this, we are documenting our activities to demonstrate the possibilities of our approach and to help others who are interested in creating empowering learning environments. | ||
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What does our ultimate vision look like? It looks like city-wide transformation. We literally have no idea what could happen if every child in Oakland had a supportive learning community and the tools and resources to explore, build, and create with the guidance of caring adults. [http://%20http://artworks.arts.gov/?p=11112 This] is a farmer’s market in north carolina that was designed and built entirely by students. What would the children and youth of Oakland build if we gave them a warehouse full of tools and supplies and the knowledge that they could build anything that they wanted? What if a space for learning and making, each with its own character and style, existed in every neighborhood? What if it existed on every block? | What does our ultimate vision look like? It looks like city-wide transformation. We literally have no idea what could happen if every child in Oakland had a supportive learning community and the tools and resources to explore, build, and create with the guidance of caring adults. [http://%20http://artworks.arts.gov/?p=11112 This] is a farmer’s market in north carolina that was designed and built entirely by students. What would the children and youth of Oakland build if we gave them a warehouse full of tools and supplies and the knowledge that they could build anything that they wanted? What if a space for learning and making, each with its own character and style, existed in every neighborhood? What if it existed on every block? | ||
==== '''Future Activities & Program Needs''' ==== | |||
===== Ideas for Future Activities ===== | |||
-scratch based computer games<br /> | -scratch based computer games<br /> | ||
-cardboard box imaginarium<br /> | -cardboard box imaginarium<br /> | ||
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===== | ===== SudoKid-desired Activities! ===== | ||
- what can we make out of duct tape???<BR> | - what can we make out of duct tape???<BR> | ||
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===== | ===== Art supplies ===== | ||
We Need:<BR> | We Need:<BR> | ||
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-paint, brushes, smocks (large shirts)<br /> | -paint, brushes, smocks (large shirts)<br /> | ||
===== | ===== Manipulatives (toys) ===== | ||
We Need: <BR> | We Need: <BR> | ||