SubGroups/Young Hackspace

Events

2018

• 27-01-2018 10:00 (starts at 12:00)
  • Kids_Hackday_January_2018

• 18-03-2018 10:00 (starts at 12:00)
  • Kids_Hackday_March_2018

• 26-05-2018 10:00 (starts at 12:00)
  • Kids_Hackday_May_2018

Past

* Young Hackspace First Edition
* Young Hackspace Second Edition
* 4.1.14._post-congressial_chill-out_gathering
* KidsWorkshopFeb2014
* KidsWorkshopMar2014
* KidsWorkshopApril2014
* KidsWorkshopNovember2014

ARTICLE: File:kids-in-space-dec-2014.pdf

Goal

To help coordinate and setup one day, hopefully, every month where we open up the space to children.

• Themed days
  • Science
  • Electronics
• Teaching use of tools
• Basic programming

Suggested Activities

• sewing
• sawing
• painting (a.k.a. Tom Sawyer: using child labor...)
• DNA
• building simple electronic contraptions (just batteries, switches, lights, buzzers, etc.)
• do 3D-printing or something like that
• improve upon simple household devices to make them into awesome self-hacked household devices(TM)
• teach about Important Hacker Stuff (security, privacy, dangers on the web, open source, etc.)
• Making kites (and flying them)
• Buiding saltwater batteries

Links

Education

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Hackers_tribes#Teaching_Hackers_Ethics

• http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Hackers_tribes#Changing_Culture

• http://www.slj.com/2015/10/technology/a-librarians-guide-to-oer-in-the-maker-space/#_

MAKER SPACE-RELATED RESOURCES ON OER COMMONS:
(open educational resources (OER))

Activities and Labs: 
LEGO Robots
Hair and Snail Challenges
3d Printing in the Classroom
Discover Engineering
High Tech Fashion
Maze Challenge
Construction and Destruction Using Castles and Catapults
What is a Robot?

Logistics

Basics

• One month before the event
  • agree date & time with other parents
  • Get volunteers for orga-tasks (e.g. KidsWorkshopNovember2014#Volunteers )
  • Get volunteers for workshop-leaders (e.g. KidsWorkshopNovember2014#ACTIVITIES_2 )
  • write a nice announcement (short; with contact details; in English & Dutch; for email (& for print?!))
  • send the announce to the community & public (lists, meetup-page, social media, & individuals... )
  • collect money / get budget (optional)

• One day / few hours before
  • CLEAN UP! (vacuum clean the floors; emptied the dishwasher; clean the surfaces..)
  • buy all the food & drinks
  • prepare workshops (get supplies & equipment) => workshop leaders!
  • make a schedule (on paper, or on white board (e.g. KidsWorkshopFeb2014#Schedule_and_activities )
  • make NAME STICKERS & find markers for people to write names...
  • make SIGNS for directing people/visitors to the space & GLUE them in ACTA

HAVE FUN :) 

• During the event
  • let people in; give a tour; explain...
  • give an introduction
• Make documentation
  • take photos
  • write down a list of people who did show up & who didn't
  • at the end of the day = CLEAN UP! (vacuum clean the floors; emptied the dishwasher; clean the surfaces..)

• After the event
  • make documentation
    • upload photos to the wiki
    • write up a few words on how did it go , on the wiki page of that event
  • send a report back to the members list
  • edit the main wiki page (this) to put the link back to the event documentation

Other tips

• (in Dutch) http://www.doehetnietzelf.org/pdf/handleiding.pdf

• File:How to organise a hackathon July 2017.pdf

• Adaconf - How to make a conference in 31 days
  • https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Lightning:Adaconf
  • Slides https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wQnVwZr-jghr50Ud44oBf4LBE7UvRs6l/view?usp=sharing
  • Video starts at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdVxyXveDz0#t=42m50s

Members

2018

• http://techinc.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kidsday-ml

Past

• Amran aka amx109
• Vesna aka becha
• Melinda aka Reese
• Webmind