[Makerspace-keymembers] Fwd: Make-a-thon Coordinating Meeting 020915 Recap

[Emily Knox]

Hey all,

Does anyone have time to help out with this?  I just don't have time to add
anything to my plate right now.

Thanks,

Emily
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Zonghe Chua <chuazh at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:32 AM
Subject: Make-a-thon Coordinating Meeting 020915 Recap
To: "Ginger, Jeffrey A" <ginger at illinois.edu>, Vishal Sachdev <
vishal at illinois.edu>, Emily Knox <emilyknox at gmail.com>, David Weightman <
diw at illinois.edu>, Cameron Alberg <cameronalberg at gmail.com>, Sahil Kumar <
slkr95 at gmail.com>, Pat East <pat at thecudo.org>, "yoojin at thecudo.org" <
yoojin at thecudo.org>, "Bradley, Joe A" <jabradly at illinois.edu>, Lawrence
Elitzer <elitzer2 at illinois.edu>


Hi all,

Thank you to those who came to the meeting yesterday. Here is a summary of
the decisions made during the meeting.

*Next Meeting: 6-7pm, 2nd March 2015, ACES Library (exact room TBC)*

*Some questions are: *

Would *Makerlab* be willing to contribute some filament for the Make-a-thon?
Will *Makerspace Urbana* be interested in helping use their 501c3 status
for food donations?

Summary of decisions made


   -

   Venue and Attendance
   -

      150 people
      -

      Main locations will be DCL and Fablab (+ Architecture)
      -

      3D printing support from Makerlab
      -

   Format
   -

      Workshop based
      -

      Dual track for children and adults
      -

      Category prizes
      -

      Theme: Elderly mobility
      -

      Workshops
      -

         E-textiles
         -

         Design Research
         -

         Innovation and Quick Prototyping
         -

         Soldering
         -

         Basic Microcontroller
         -

         CAD and 3D printing
         -

         Cityx Design Challenge for kids
         -

   Marketing
   -

      Sign up on the event website
      -

      Fee for a T-shirt
      -

      Start by next week if possible.
      -

   Materials
   -

      Fablab can provide existing materials
      -

      Makerlab can donate some filament
      -

      Inventables
      -

      SORF
      -

   More Sponsors
   -

      TEC
      -

      Applied Research Associates
      -

      Laura Frierich
      -

   Food
   -

      DFA and Makers will search for food
      -

      EIN/501c3 from Makerspace Urbana


*Tasks Distribution*

Tasks

Contact Janna Sebestik

DFA

Talk to Gary Durack TEC

DFA

Talk to Applied Research Associates

DFA

Laura Frierich

DFA

Email to sparkfun/adafruit

Makers

Send email to Pat about EDC

DFA

Email to Laura from Clark-Lindsey

Jeff Ginger

Meeting with Jeff Smith from Autodesk

David Weightman

Talk to Bruce Litchfield

Joe

Secure some pebbles from Cinda Heeren for Prizes

DFA (Sahil)

SORF funding application

Makers

Look for food!

DFA + Makers

Talk to Hugh of Architecture

DFA

Talk to IEEE for soldering and some money

DFA

Design Prompt by 2/12

DFA + Makers

Website Creation

Yoojin

Promotional materials

Yoojin


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