Scratch Day 2012

Scratch Day
Saturday May 19, 2012, 10am-2pm
Washington-Lee High School
1301 N Stafford St
Arlington, VA 22201

http://www.apsva.us/Domain/2156

http://day.scratch.mit.edu/event/481

Highlights

• Teacher Workshop on Scratch programming with Recertification Hours...

• Workshop for teens and parents

• Workshop for young children ages 7-12

Planning Notes

Running off one-page (maybe two-sided) agenda with contact info, web links

• Do we need a floorplan? Facilities notes?

 * 
 * Rooms 4207, 4209, 4211

• Can Washington-Lee run off copies?

 * Yes

Given 10am-2pm, will need to have lunch break 12-1

• Lunch on your own
• Food places near by?

 * http://www.urbanspoon.com/n/7/605/DC/Ballston-restaurants

• Picnic benches or room inside where ppl can consume their bag lunch?

 * Teacher's lounge with beautiful view.

• Soda/snack machines in the school?

 * A few.

• Probably too much to try to order pizzas

Crew

• Instructors: Richard, Paul, Anthony
  • Paul doing the teacher room
  • Richard B-M doing Scratch class for parents and older kids
  • Anthony doing basic Scratch for younger kids (Cici in that room?)

• Hosting: Mike

Welcome

• Mike will do a 15-minute welcome, 10-minute close
• Welcome session should be able to hold the entire group, ideally to show a few PPT slides or a very short video clip
• Raffle prize ideas?
  • Scratch 1.4 books
  • Picoboard?

Facilities / Computer Lab (Paul will take care of this)

• Classrooms need Scratch 1.4 installed, internet access, projector at teacher station
• Parents bring USB stick or be prepared to email your class project to self via webmail
• If a couple hand-painted banners were to be made, how could they be hung up. Or are there rolling bulletin boards?

 * No rolling bbs in school, but we can masking tape up banners.

Promotion

• Blog post on olpclearningclub.org
  • Blog gets syndicated to Planet Sugar Labs, Planet OLPC and OLPC News
• Email blast to OLPC Learning Club list
• Jeff, Paul: How will Scratch Day to be promoted within Arlington Schools?

 * Notified our CTE Supervisor of the event.
 * Notified our in school news letter, "Newscheck" about the event.