<div>On working with adults:</div>
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<div>Think about what adults want to do--regardless of their age, or status. There are any number of things:</div>
<div>"I need a place where I can work on my projects without my family there to distract me."</div>
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<div>"I have always wanted to:</div>
<div>* open a business</div>
<div>* create some art</div>
<div>* invent something</div>
<div>* try something new</div>
<div>but when I was young, my</div>
<div>* parent</div>
<div>* authority</div>
<div>* school</div>
<div>told me I couldn't, would I be allowed to do those things at your space?"</div>
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<div>And of course the response is: "Yes, come and help us make the space and we promise to say 'yes'!"</div>
<div><br></div>On forming a space: https://atrium.schoolfactory.org/spacekit/home<div><br></div>
<div><a href="https://prezi.com/_ts5ubbabu-n/hackerspace-facilitator-workshop-at-cccamp2011/">https://prezi.com/_ts5ubbabu-n/hackerspace-facilitator-workshop-at-cccamp2011/</a></div>
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<div>Happy to help with specific issues also--it's our full-time focus.</div>
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<div>James</div>
<div class="mailbox_signature">--<br>James Carlson<br>414-215-0215<br>Director, School Factory<br>CEO, Bucket Brigade</div>
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<div> We just had two full weekends with booths at East Bay Mini Maker Faire and at Cal State East Bays Bay Area Science Festival! </div>
<div>Parents were swarming us and wanting information about all of this for their kids. We did Squishy Circuits and showed some Bristle Bots and a few things my kids made at Hacker Scouts. We were asked to go to schools science fairs, afterschool programs and more faires and many were wanting to pay us. I am thinking about doing these for pay to help fund raise for a permanent space. Ideas about this? Many were really excited to see a possibility of a Hackerspace in the city even though a lot had no clue what on earth it was...I had to start saying it was like a science and technology interactive museum as
my elevator speech just to get them to the booth to learn more. Again there was several thousand people there and this morning I lost my voice. </div>
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<div>One person from Hayward State wanted us to contact their advancement dept so we can become affiliated with them and they will help fund us but I am a bit concerned about that. I don;t want to belong to a university. </div>
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<div>So I want more information about some of these projects we can do at more of these faires to get us noticed. </div>
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<div>Specifically this one: <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Vortex-Drive-Micro-ROV-ROVVor/" style="font-size: 14pt;">http://www.instructables.com/id/Vortex-Drive-Micro-ROV-ROVVor/</a>
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<div>How can we put the battery inside the centrifuge tube? Are there different sizes of centrifuge tubes?</div>
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<div>I am not sure if Beambots could work in a fair
enviroment? Thoughts about these?</div>
<div>Also how do we get more single adults involved in our hackerspaces. </div>
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<div>Most of the people that we have had connections with are families with children. </div>
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<div>How do you attract the adults? What kinds of events do adults without children like? I haven't been without children for over 20yrs so I am clueless in that respect. </div>
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<div>Carolyn</div> </div></blockquote></div><br>