<div dir="ltr">If it's okay, I'll post the call for volunteers to the PCC Engineering Club and Computer Science clubs' Facebook pages in case some PCC students might be interested. I regularly go to the Engineering Club meetings and on Friday I mentioned that SCALE was coming up in a few weeks. That club meets on Fridays from noon to 1 p.m., but I have to leave at 12:45 in order to be at my 1 p.m. class on time. The Computer Science club meets on Thursdays at noon, but I am unable to attend any of their meetings because I have a class then. I did, however, sign up for both clubs so I get informed as to what they're up to in case they have activities at other times I'd like to attend. I am a music major, something I never would have thought of doing 40+ years ago when I first attended college.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Braddock Gaskill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:braddock@braddock.com" target="_blank">braddock@braddock.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi folks,<div>The One Laptop Per Child community is attempting to run a Coder's Corner at their expo booth at SCALE this year to teach people of all ages to code. They need a lot of help manning the booth.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone interested in helping out, please contact Caryl Bigenho (CC'ed <span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'normal arial',sans-serif;font-size:12px">cbigenho</span><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'normal arial',sans-serif;font-size:12px">@<a href="http://hotmail.com" target="_blank">hotmail.com</a></span>). You may remember Caryl from the great presentation on Open Source in Education and OLPC she gave to the LUG last spring (video at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08EEQogGnu8" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08EEQogGnu8</a> ). </div><div><br></div><div>They have several free conference passes for volunteers.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Details from Caryl:</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I was hoping you might see if any of the members of the group would be interested in helping with the "Coders' Corner" booth at SCaLE 13X. It is only 3 weeks away and so far, I have just 2 people signed up to help me... and one is my husband!</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The purpose of the booth is to have a place where people of all ages and experience, who aren't coders, can have a chance to try it and see what the excitement is all about. <span style="font-size:12pt">We will be able to have several XO computers that people can use to learn, mainly via Scratch and Python. We may also have some other laptops so they can try some of the Google Hour Of Code activities</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The exhibit hall is open 3 days this year which makes covering all the hours extra challenging. We will have several full conference passes so people will be able to attend sessions and the fun evening events. They'll also get a t-shirt and all the other swag that registered attendees receive.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">One other perk is that we will probably have room to advertise SGVLUG in the booth. I plan to also have some OLPC and SugarLabs things there too.</div><div>"</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-braddock</div></font></span></div>
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