<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This installment of Spark (#181) has interviews with both Dale Dougherty and Mitch Altman (separately).<div><br></div><div>It Mitch's interview he states that the hacker community could easily raise $10mil outside of government funding to create the equivalent of the DARPA funded <a href="http://Makerspace.com">Makerspace.com</a> project.</div><div><br><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2012/05/spark-181-may-6-9-2012/">http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2012/05/spark-181-may-6-9-2012/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Ok. Lets do that. </div><div>Where can we get funding?</div><div>Goal is $10mil to be spent over, say 5 years? </div><div>Perhaps starting at $500k for initial year startup/planning and ramping up over time as more 'schools' are created.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps the schools would teach basic maker/hacker skills along with flipped classes in basic curriculum (history, writing/literature, math, etc.)- eg Khan Academy style videos watched 'at home' and discussion/practice sessions done 'in school'. </div><div>The flipped style is already very well suited to shop/programming topics of the maker/hacker community.<br><br><div>
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