[Makerspace-keymembers] Invitation to be a Community Partner in a Grant Application

[Emily Knox]

Nope.


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Jeffrey Putney <quaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone mind if I reply with a yes to this??
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> Jeff
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> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Jeffrey Putney <quaker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Very interesting. See below.
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>> Sent from an android.
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Zonghe Chua" <chuazh at gmail.com>
>> Date: Mar 10, 2014 5:44 PM
>> Subject: Invitation to be a Community Partner in a Grant Application
>> To: <makerspaceu at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "Sanny Lin (DFA at UIUC)" <uiuc+sanny at designforamerica.com>, "Julian
>> Bongiorno" <julian at designforamerica.com>
>>
>> Dear Sir/Mdm,
>>
>> I am Zonghe a studio lead from Design for America (DFA) UIUC. DFA<http://designforamerica.com/>is a network of student run design studios that seek to use human centered
>> design to solve problems within the community. A faculty member from the
>> Department of Computer Science , Karrie Karahalios<http://social.cs.uiuc.edu/people/kkarahal.html>has recommended we apply for University of Illinois Public Engagement Grant
>> $1500 grant to use design as an outreach tool to the community. She has
>> volunteered to be our faculty advisor. However, I was notified of this just
>> today and the deadline is this* Friday* *3/14*. However, I think that we
>> can make this work if we act fast.
>>
>> What we are proposing is a series of workshops from DFA to teach
>> human-centered design methodologies to the members of Makerspace Urbana.
>> The $1500 will be used to bring in design thinking speakers, host workshops
>> base on design thinking processes and will be geared towards making novel
>> inventions and hacks to tackle contemporary social issues within the
>> community and beyond. We are thinking also partnering experienced DFAers to
>> co-collaborate in these projects.
>>
>> Do let me know if this is something your organization would be interested
>> in doing if so, I will send you my proposal to review by Wednesday night
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Zonghe Chua
>> Mechanical Engineering | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2015
>> Studio Lead | Design for America UIUC
>>
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