[Noisebridge-discuss] SF Elementary Math Circle

[Glen Jarvis]

Also, just in case it's helpful and hasn't been seen, I recently found the
Visitor Advice page on the Wiki.. and there's a notice about this not begin
child safe:

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Visitor_advice#Not_.22child-safe.22

Glen

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rachel,
>
> I think this would be really awesome, and a lot of people at the space are
> supportive of having children over.  The only thing to keep in mind is that
> while children are welcome, there are is no censorship in the space
> (noisebridgers tend to utilize quite a bit of freedom of expression) and
> there are lots of sharp/pointy/toxic/boozy things lying around.  Usually
> this isn't a huge issue, but something to keep in mind....
>
> Cheers,
> Praveen
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Rachel Chalmers <rachel at goop.org> wrote:
>
>> Hola Noisebridgians,
>>
>> I'm trying to pull together a Math Circle for elementary school-age kids
>> (7-10ish) in Bernal and the Mission.
>>
>> If you're not familiar with the awesomeness that is math circles, there's
>> some good background here:
>>
>> http://www.mathcircles.org/
>>
>> My 7yo attended the Berkeley Math Circle last year:
>>
>>
>> http://mathcircle.berkeley.edu/index.php?options=bmc|bmc_elementary|BMC%20Elementary<http://mathcircle.berkeley.edu/index.php?options=bmc%7Cbmc_elementary%7CBMC%20Elementary>(that's her in the second pic)
>>
>> It was amazing and terrific, but she and her dad were schlepping home on
>> BART very late at night, and we'd love to have a closer option. There's
>> already an SF Math Circle for grade 6 and up, but elementary schoolkids
>> aren't provided for. That said, the organizers recommended Irina Lazarevsky
>> as someone who has led groups of this age before. Irina's agreed to run a
>> group for us. I have a bunch of families ready and willing to sign up, but
>> no venue.
>>
>> I've talked to the libraries but they require free and equal access, and
>> this would be a paid thing ($20/hour) for a limited number of kids (7). I've
>> talked to some schools about renting a classroom but they're expensive
>> ($50/night) and we're already looking at an expensive proposition.
>>
>> So I wondered if we could work something out with you guys. A donation for
>> your buildout, perhaps? This would be on Wednesday evenings from 6-7, if you
>> have free space. The kids would be supervised at all times and would not be
>> messing with your power tools or biohacking experiments.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Rachel
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