<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>So I want more information about some of these projects we can do at more of these faires to get us noticed. </div><div><br></div><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></div><div><br></div><div>How can we put the battery inside the centrifuge tube? Are there different sizes of centrifuge tubes?</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>Most of the people that we have had connections with are families with children. </div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>Carolyn</div> </div></body></html>