[Noisebridge-discuss] FW: [Fwd: FW from Eva Meyers: ExCEL Request for Proposals 2009-2010]

[Mitch Altman]

If you take a look at the sample budget spreadsheet that I uploaded to our wiki, you'll see that the amount of money is not insignificant (i.e. more than $20,000!).  Surely we can put in a proposal that pays us somewhere close to this amount.

 

 

Here's the wiki page:

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Sfusd_excel_program

 

 

I would love to teach kids how to solder and how to make cool things with microcontrollers (like I do every Monday at Noisebridge, and like I am going to do for a week in NYC next month at a high school there).  This could be one part of the curriculum.  What you just proposed could be part of that, or a separate thing.  Other people could come up with other parts of the curriculum -- the totality of which could be something like:  "How to Make Things", or something like that.

 

 

Mitch.

 

 

 

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> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:34:02 -0700
> From: j at hug.gs
> To: maltman23 at hotmail.com
> CC: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] FW: [Fwd: FW from Eva Meyers: ExCEL Request for Proposals 2009-2010]
> 
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:40:00PM -0700, Mitch Altman wrote: 
> > 
> > This may be an interesting opportunity for Noisebridge -- one that actually pays money.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I received the email today, copied below, from the SF Unified School District. They are looking for people who are willing to teach kids in after school programs. They also pay people (not insignificantly -- see the example budget on our wiki, for which I give a link, below).
> > 
> > 
> > We could get a group of people who are wanting to teach kids various subjects, and create a curriculum. Some of the money could go to Noisebridge, and some to the teachers.
> > 
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> Good find, Mitch!
> 
> I'm not sure if this will result in a useful amount of cash though:
> 
> "While limited funds do exist to pay for programming, ExCEL ASP is
> requesting proposals from organizations that could provide free or
> reduce-priced enrichment programming, staff, and/or training at
> schools during non-school hours."
> 
> ...
> 
> "When considering partners, we are particularly looking for the
> following budget considerations:
> * In-Kind Services or Materials provided
> * Matching Funds provided"
> 
> That being said, I helped a little with an electronics training
> program back in school:
> 
> http://www-ieee.eecs.berkeley.edu/hope/
> 
> (The University no longer requires you to know which side of the
> soldering iron to hold to get an EE degree, and some of us had a bit
> of a problem with this.)
> 
> It would be pretty easy for me to crib from the old lesson plan and
> put something together for these kids one hour M-F, but I'm not sure
> if we're going to end up with the best bid once I take all the
> expenses into account.
> 
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