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From: Roper, Lucy
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 1:54 PM
To: Roper, Lucy
Subject: RE: An idea! And sorry for a lengthy email!
Dear Alan,
No doubt you are very busy with one thing and another.
I have been requested by Myra to give her my suggestions for my visit in two weeks time. I wonder if you could let me know whether you think it will be ok for me to bring down either the older students S4/5 on the Friday afternoon, and/or bring some younger students down in the morning of the Friday as well. You are probably just setting up on the Friday morning, so maybe not good for me to turn up then.
looking forward to experiencing the techwave!
regards,
Lucy
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From: Roper, Lucy
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:41 AM
To: Bennett, Joseph
Subject: FW: An idea! And sorry for a lengthy email!
hi-just had this response. Like the idea of a giant robot though!
Lucy
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From: Alan Dix [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:04 AM
To: Roper, Lucy
Subject: Re: An idea! And sorry for a lengthy email!
Got off island OK and down before the snow, but have just spent an unexpected night in Kendal as the windscreen wipers stopped working and having to wait to get it fixed, but hopefully will be off down to B'ham in a few hours now.
Both ideas sound great - Steve Foreshaw always wants to build a giant Robocop-style robot (but the other enormous clunky robot not Robocop) and one day I'd like to build a Dalek remote presence device ... but maybe not for first project in March ;-)
For robots in March - as soon as you have relevant permissions, etc., but I've not got any major activities planned this time (like the FabLab workshops last time), so can just pencil in the Friday afternoon for now. When certain I'll let people know in case there are things they'd like to bring.
October hack the school will I'm certain be very popular :-) :-)
Alan
On 29 January 2015 at 08:48, Roper, Lucy <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Dear Alan,
I hope you got back safely on Tuesday. Weather certainly looking a bit ominous for leaving today-but we'll wait and see.
Thank you for coming in on Monday. I met up with Joe Bennett yesterday to discuss funding, Tech wave and other bits. It's slightly tricky not knowing what the holistic view of Technology within the school is, which makes it more awkward for applying for funding.
However both Joe and I looked at the robotic rovers that he had made with the S4-5 pupils using arduino boards. They could still do with some tweaking and may benefit from the pupils bringing them down to Techwave perhaps on the Friday afternoon? We thought it would be a great way of integrating something the pupils have done at school and bringing them into contact with a whole host of other technology minded people and 'technologies' to play with. As Myra is away this week it is also more difficult to get a firm idea of my availability that week, and also for Joe and also permission for the pupils to come down too. But in essence our request is that I/Joe are able to bring down 7 or 8 S4 pupils on the Friday afternoon of Techwave.
The second thought we had was the possibility of inviting a few Techwave folk up to the school to 'make sense' and build something with all the 'redundant and dated' technology stuff you saw we had laying around in the Technology room. The idea would be to challenge a few of you to put something together preferably with a few pupils on board to make something. This may link in to any of your students doing research projects? This realistically would need to take place in the October Techwave? The last idea would also need vetting by Myra, but thought it would make sense to suggest the idea to you first and see what your thoughts are.
Joe of course may want to add in things I've missed.
Once again sorry for the lengthy email.
regards,
Lucy
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From: Tiree Tech Wave [[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] on behalf of Alan Dix [[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 7:47 PM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: please forward - Tiree Tech Wave call for participation
I've sent copies of this to BCS HCI Group mailing lists, CHI-announce and SICSA and posted it on interact-design.org<http://interact-design.org>
please pass it on to any other lists or people you think would be interested
thanks
Alan
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TIREE TECH WAVE
A hands-on making and meeting event exploring the edges of technology on the wild edge of Scotland
http://tireetechwave.org/
26-30 March 2015, Isle of Tiree, Scotland
The Atlantic fringe was the haven of scholarship through the Dark Ages and is the haunt of wind-surfers today. The Tech Wave tries to capture a little of the spirit of each (see vision); from mashups to breadboards, Arduino to RDF, we will consider the social and philosophical challenges of technology by engaging directly with it. Come to take time to explore ideas that keep being put on the backburner, to be stimulated by others, or simply to be intellectually refreshed.
New faces and old are all welcome.
As always there is no fixed agenda, the issues and activities depend on you! However, to spark ideas there are boxes full of maker-kit (including a few new toys from a Kickstarter and 3D scanner), and lots of data to hack and mash from the island and Alan's walk.
See updates:
on Twitter: @tireetechwave
or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1587697941459345/
Registration £130 or Early bird £100 (until 27th February)
See website for full details of TTW9 and reports of past events:
http://tireetechwave.org/
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