[Makerspace-keymembers] Fwd: Workshop for girls / young women Aug 1 or 2?

[Jeffrey Putney]

Here's a cool looking opportunity!


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From: Aimee Rickman <aimeerickmansemail at yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 10:33 PM
Subject: Workshop for girls / young women Aug 1 or 2?
To: "makerspaceu at gmail.com" <makerspaceu at gmail.com>
Cc: "chyn at ojctech.com" <chyn at ojctech.com>


Dear Makerspace.

At the IMC on August 1 & 2, we are holding a reunion weekend for GirlZone,
a volunteer-run, female-led, feminist grassroots organization that ran in
CU from 2003-2011. GirlZone did many things to support girls in our
community, including hosting supportive yet challenging hands-on workshops
for girls led by talented and inspiring female facilitators. We will be
doing this again for the reunion, with some of those who participated in
GirlZone as kids now leading workshops as facilitators.

Danielle Chenowyth mentioned that you might have some female volunteers
willing to host a workshop for girls and young women as part of our reunion
weekend. This is wonderful! We would really love to expose girls and young
women to Makerspace as part of our schedule.

Right now, we have an opening on Saturday, August 1 from 10-11:45am or on
Sunday, August 2 from 9:15-10:45am. Would either of these times work?

GirlZone has always required training for workshop facilitators/teachers.
While workshop leaders clearly know their content area, creating positive
learning environments for young women requires advanced thought and
planning. We will be having a training for all reunion workshop
facilitators from 6-7:15pm on Thursday, July 23 at the IMC. Any adult
leading or helping with a workshop is required to attend this training. If
a few female Makerspace volunteers were willing to host this workshop, we
would definitely welcome their involvement in the training.

We would also work with you to set enrollment and age limits that allow for
the best learning opportunities for those in attendance. Ideally, the
workshop would be suited for young women aged 7-13, though a workshop that
has activities for older teens and/or younger girls would work too. Most
important is that those who come are able to succeed in activities they
take on without relying on others' help, and that they leave feeling they
are able to do something again after the workshop that they previously did
not know how to do before the workshop.

This means that workshop activities should be developmentally suited to the
ages in attendance. If a wide span of ages are welcome, there should be a
number of activities to allow everyone to be challenged and successful in
their explorations.

I am happy to discuss further details once we know if this might be
possible.

I would appreciate it if someone could please get back to me by this Monday
to let me know your thoughts. Fingers crossed!

Many thanks!

Aimee Rickman
646 250 3226
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