{"id":11329,"date":"2014-06-19T00:14:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T04:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=11329"},"modified":"2014-06-19T00:14:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T04:14:24","slug":"wednesday-night-national-day-of-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/06\/19\/wednesday-night-national-day-of-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night – National Day of Making"},"content":{"rendered":"

Busy day.. at one point on three phone call simultaneously.. and paying attention to each pretty well..<\/p>\n

It was a noteworthy day as Pres Obama declared to today a ‘National Day of Making’.<\/a>. and marked it with the first ever Makerfaire. at the white house.<\/a>. I saw that several of my friends got invited .. which is pretty exciting !<\/p>\n

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I didn’t make anything today (though I did make lots of stuff this week) .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I did manage to take an hour out to meet with the good folks at Vermont Works for Women<\/a>. They are looking for help on how to interest more ‘women children’ (aka ‘girls’) to the joys of programming. We had a very good brainstorming session on the topic. I’d like to ask any of you to share your ideas.. How can we get 7’th to 12th grade women more interested in programming ?\u00a0 Please share your ideas…<\/p>\n

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I loved the energy and insights of the group.. this is the same group that runs the very cool ‘Rosie’s Girls’ program that my buddy Kat is part of. She teaches girls to weld. .. how cool s that ?<\/p>\n

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I’d invited my friend Karen tot he meeting. Karen is a whiz at the programming language Ruby.. actually… Karen is a whiz at many tings related to programming. Today she brought her very cool electric scooter.. and we all got to take it for a spin .<\/p>\n

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Now I’m in Sherborn at my moms..I’m down for an early mornign meeting in Boston tomorrow. It’s so weird walking\u00a0 in to this house\u00a0 since my Dad died..\u00a0\u00a0 I keep looing around for him..<\/p>\n

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These things take time…..<\/p>\n

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nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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