<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">In an early example of this confederacy-of-dunces effect, Star Simpson was nearly shot for her STEAM project.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="https://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html">https://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N40/simpson.html">http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N40/simpson.html</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="http://boingboing.net/2008/09/22/star-simpson-one-yea.html">http://boingboing.net/2008/09/22/star-simpson-one-yea.html</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Shirley Hicks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shirley@velochicdesign.com" target="_blank">shirley@velochicdesign.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On Sep 15, 2015, at 11:37 PM, Shirley Hicks <<a href="mailto:redmtnadmin@redmountainmakers.org">redmtnadmin@redmountainmakers.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hey everyone,<br>
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Are there any hackers on the list who are also US teachers who would care to comment on how to best word an email lending support to a high school student who has been suspended for three days for bringing a circuit board clock project to school? I think that this is an overreaction by the school leadership and the local police due to their not understanding electronic engineering and general hacking. I don’t want to do a social media pile on; I would rather helpful and educational while pointing out how they’ve got this very, very, wrong. FWIW - I checked a map - Irving is a Dallas suburb.<br>
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<a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-9th-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-9th-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece</a><br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Independent_School_District" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Independent_School_District</a><br>
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Thanks!<br>
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Shirley Hicks<br>
Secretary/Business Admin/Programmer/Maker<br>
Red Mountain Makers<br>
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