[Noisebridge-discuss] SF Elementary Math Circle

[Kelly]

I think that it's totally reasonable to have a group of children
meeting in a classroom.  I am actually organizing an event for kids
that will be happening in the NB kitchen sometime in the next few
weeks.  We'll have a large ratio of parents to kids, and the activity
we're doing is pretty safe.

Whenever the topic of kids in the space comes up there's concerns
about liability and censorship, and the conclusion we seem to come to
is Be Excellent.  It's not cool to project porn or curse at the top of
your lungs if there are kids in the space. It's also not cool to bring
your kids to NB if you can't handle the fact that we have a dong
drawer in the kitchen.  So we as members will be accountable for our
event by talking with parents as they arrive, and not broadcasting
this to an inappropriate audience (like say, the PTA at a super
conservative private school).

In the case of Rachel's activity, since it's very contained, safe, and
supervised, I think that the more conflicting issue is the closed
group and entrance charge.  As you may have noticed on the wiki, we
don't generally host those sorts of events.

-Kelly

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 22:15, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:
> 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
>>> (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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