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

[Zonghe Chua]

Hi everybody from Makerspace Urbana!

This is a draft proposal for your review and input. It's relatively short
and that is all that is required. But the grant will be $1500 and run from
August 2014 - May 2015 and be administered through our faculty advisor. In
this time we plan to host 4 workshops on Human Centered Design and work on
short activities to learn the basics of the process. We're thinking of
co-hosting ideation and prototyping with your group since I believe that in
terms of making stuff and coming up with cool ideas, your organization has
a lot of expertise and all parties can stand to learn from each other and
build new relationships.

The links to the draft write up and budget are here (commenting has been
enabled):

DRAFT WRITE UP<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eInW-8mAaPZf8nwk_eHvkiJY5YuZPfunMqeEzhfcqiA/edit?usp=sharing>
DRAFT BUDGET<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AraBn5rdImrPdHZUVXgxbm1CYWRhTnZVS2JpREViaXc&usp=sharing>

Feel free to email me back if there is anything in general you think can be
improved. The proposal isn't detailed. Details can be discussed later once
we've been awarded the monies :D .

Once things are okay, I would need a person from Makerspace Urbana, to sign
appropriate part of the attached PDF (scanned) by this *Thursday Night
(3/13).*

Thanks for your interest!

Regards,
Zonghe



On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Jeffrey Putney <quaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Zonghe,
>
> That sounds wonderful. Yes we would love to be involved and please do send
> the proposal. We have a very flat organizational structure so I've cc'd
> the organizing members listserv email here so any interested members can
> look over the proposal as well.
>
> As a group I think it's safe to say we like to focus on creating a
> supportive maker community, doing community outreach, and thinking about
> social issues as well. So this sounds like a very good fit.
>
> I'm excited to learn more about this project. Thanks so much for
> contacting us!
> Jeff
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Zonghe Chua <chuazh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jeffrey Putney
> Senior Software Engineer
> Diagnostic Photonics
> 217-766-6580
>



-- 
Zonghe Chua
Mechanical Engineering | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2015
Studio Lead | Design for America UIUC
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