[14942] in APO News
Re: Help out with Conclave afternoon activities!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Oreman)
Wed Mar 14 15:52:36 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAD01O1iVkX6VMQuF7YP8gD5LgzcrAz2vsZj4HNrZGUzmEmbtig@mail.gmail.com>
From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:52:09 -0400
To: conclave-ax@mit.edu, apo-news@mit.edu
Piper is awesome and has decided to PC the Lego DNA kits service
project. Do you want to be awesome like Piper? There are plenty of
choices left to help out with, so let me know!
Josh
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Joshua Oreman <oremanj@mit.edu> wrote:
> 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.s=
html
> ; 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. :-) =A0PC 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!) =A0You can help fix this. Do so!
>
> Yours in LFS,
> Josh
