[Imc-makerspace] Hi There!

[Brady Salz]

Hey there!

Hope your summer went well! I've begun to settle back in, although starting
with all these fun ECE classes is already a good deal work than I
expected/wanted, but I suppose that's engineering in college. I meant to
drop by your hours yesterday night, but I had to cover someone's shift
rather last minute. Glad to see you can use our website haha, it's been
through a lot of redesign this summer and let's just say the amount of down
time has been less than optimal for sure.

More importantly to our matters though, you should've gotten a google doc
link from me around the same time as this email. It has a rough guideline
(emphasis: rough) of the workshops we're going to host this year (and
everyone at the Makerspace is more than welcome to attend of course! If
it's just info, it's free, otherwise we just charge materials fee). You did
mention how hard it was to drag kids out to "the middle of the nowhere"
(you know, off-campus), but I think we're going to have a lot more success
this year with the highly increased involvement we've had from the past few
years, especially with mini-field trips to professor's labs to check out
their research. I see no reason why we can't have one for the Makerspace,
so that's definitely something I'd love to discuss.

I'll definitely try and make it over there next Wednesday!

Brady

P.S. That Corbin kid? Oh my, he is *smart*. Programming micros (Parallax
line) since middle school, veeeeery impressive. He'll be an awesome member
to our area!

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Stewart Dickson <mathartspd at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, Brady,
>
> How are you settling back in to the routine in U-C?
> Just wanted to let you know we're still here.
>
> I checked out the IEEE.illinois.edu Calendar and your program looks
> *packed*!
> Looks like you've got some great stuff going on.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Stewart
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Brady Salz <brady.salz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My name's Brady Salz, and I'm the Workshops Director for the next year
> for
> > IEEE student body at UIUC. I've been subscribing to your mailing list for
> > quire some time, and I've dropped by the Makerspace once or twice, and
> it's
> > been a great time. I'm emailing you guys today with a request to have
> some
> > more involvement between the students and the community next year,
> starting
> > in the fall.
> >
> > I'm a strong believer in the hacker/maker mentality, and I've found many
> > people who also share these interests as well. Unfortunately, the ECE
> > curriculum here doesn't really present itself in a way to capitalize on
> that
> > desire often. Through my workshops, many, many people are finally given
> the
> > chance to learn  one of the most basic skills in electronics: soldering!
> > While that is only the beginning, I feel it is an accurate
> representation of
> > the large gap in skills taught here.
> >
> > While this whole philosophy of workshops is nothing new here, I still
> feel
> > that it remains remarkably isolated from the community. Like I said, I
> > believe in Making, and that is truly a community art. What I'm trying to
> > say, in a very roundabout way, is that I sincerely hope that we could
> > collaborate quite a bit over the course of the next year! I'm not quite
> sure
> > why I'm sending this email so early, since I'll be away all summer
> > (interning with IBM, woohoo), but I really just wanted to get the idea
> out.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Brady
> >
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