[TheMathLeague] FW: Athens Makers: Polymer Night and Other Upcoming Events

[Klein, Bob]

The Makers group in Athens is being led by Shad Paris. They are making
nylon. Maybe they will have ³the Jungle² by The Nylons playing in the
backgroundŠ
BK

On 6/24/15, 10:19 PM, "Lucas, Mark" <lucasm at ohio.edu> wrote:

>Don¹t forget the Polymer Party Thursday June 25 with Dr. Shad Paris from
>the 
>Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio University! We¹ll meet
>in Clippinger
>194 on the campus of Ohio University starting at 6PM.
>
>(http://athensmakers.net - STEAM Events for kids 6th grade and up, no
>registration necessary
>for any of the events listed.)
>
>*** Polymer Party:
>Dr.  Shad Paris, the leader of last year's Fiery Chemistry Workshop, has
>planned a Polymer
>Party for the June 25th Maker's session! (6-8PM) Come make nylon and
>a variety of other materials while you learn about polymers that are all
>around us! You'll want
>to wear closed toe shoes and long pants, preferably. And while it's not a
>huge issue, if you
>have reactions to strong smells, make sure you are prepared. We will be
>using the hoods.
>We will gather in Clippinger 194 for an introduction and then head down
>to the labs.
>The schedule for the upcoming weeks is:
>
>June 25: Polymer Party  (Shad Paris)
>July 2:    Open Work Night (Mark and Ryan Lucas)
>July 9:    Programming in Scratch (Chang Liu)
>July 16:  Audacity - Sound Editing (Nathaniel Berger, Greg Kessler)
>July 18:  Public observation of model rocket launches for International
>Space University (afternoon)
>July 23: Electricity and Magnetism: Motors, Electromagnets and Zippy
>Batteries (Mark Lucas)
>July 25: Arduino Expo: Clippinger Hall - 10AM-2PM
>July 30: We¹ll see!
>
>
>*** Open Work Night:
>Clippinger 036. We¹ll have the Arduinos and Makey Makeys out for anyone
>who wants to keep
>working with them or didn¹t get a chance to play with them earlier. We
>will also have a collection
>of K¹nex and Legos out for those interested in building!
>
>*** Programming in Scratch:
>Scratch is a great visualize programming environment created by MIT
>(http://scratch.mit.edu)
>to help people learn to program. Dr. Change Liu from the Department of
>Electrical Engineering
>and Computer Science will lead the session.
>
>*** Audacity:
>Audacity is an open-source, freely available sound editing program. We
>will learns some of the
>ins and outs of editing sound and see what comes out! Gordy Hall 015.
>
>
>That¹s it for now!
>Mark Lucas
>
>-- 
>Mark Lucas 								email: lucasm at ohiou.edu
>252D Clippinger Lab						phone: (740)597-2984
>Department of Physics and Astronomy		fax: (740)593-0433
>Ohio University
>Athens, OH 45701
>