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
- 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.