[14938] in APO News
Help out with Conclave afternoon activities!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Oreman)
Mon Mar 12 22:21:46 2012
From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:21:20 -0400
To: conclave-ax@mit.edu, apo-news@mit.edu
Hi folks,
Are you going to be at Conclave? Even if not, are you going to be in
the area and available on Saturday 3/24 from 2pm to 3pm? If so, you
should think about running a Conclave service or fellowship event!
The idea is to have one-hour, drop-in, highly-parallelizable projects
and highly-fun fellowship events, for the attendees to enjoy between
lunch and the section business meeting. We want to be able to
advertise our awesome schedule to them at the end of this week, so
it's important that we get these squared away fairly quickly.
Basically any project that can take place over the span of an hour in
a classroom is workable. You could...
- organize the building of yet more Lego DNA kits! Lori has this
basically all set up and will be happy to advise if you're not
familiar with the project, which is described at
http://mindandhand.mit.edu/educators/curriculum-packages/lego-chemistry.shtml
; I can get you more info if you're interested.
- do something for Project Linus! Shouldn't be any harder to PC than a
usual Project Linus project, although there might be some attendees
who aren't super-familiar with knitting/sewing.
- make cards for troops overseas, or for the ill in our community!
You'd need to acquire construction-paper-type materials and find an
organization that'd be able to distribute the finished product.
- something else entirely! The sky's the limit!
On the fellowship side, you could...
- run a silkscreening demo! People come to our silkscreening room, get
shown all the snazziness, and make their own APO letter shirts on the
fly! (Then they go into the office to heat-set while more people come
through to do the silkscreening.) This would require a PC who is
silkscreen trained or willing to become so (there will be several
silkscreening runs between now and Conclave).
- run something involving time-travel-themed media! I'm thinking a
showing of "Blink" from Doctor Who, but if it fits into an hour, is
thematic, and isn't R-rated, it's probably fair game. Amusing
commentary is optional.
- run a Rock Band event. This seems to be a popular fellowship event
at many Conclaves. :-) PC would ideally know where we could buy, beg,
or borrow a Rock Band set.
- something else fun!
We want at least 2 service projects and 2 fellowship events, and we
currently don't have _any_ PCs (gasp!) You can help fix this. Do so!
Yours in LFS,
Josh
