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Street Light
by Ian Ingram | May 20, 2009
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Social Impact

by Joseph Sinatra | May 28, 2009
 

Hi Ian,

Could you talk more about the social impact of your idea? I appreciate the community building aspect of this but I'm wondering if there could be even more nuances to explore. For example, how specifically would youth be involved beyond sharing their voices. Perhaps there would be a vocational element too?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best,

Joseph

more on social impact

by Ian Ingram | May 31, 2009
 

Hi Joseph,

The youth are not only sharing their voices but also coding gestures for the machine in the after school programming that accompanies the project.  This programming is indeed an educational aspect of the project where the youth will learn about the systems and sub-systems of robots and how they are integrated and, through their efforts to get the machine model to execute an interpretable gesture, about the process of taking something they have in their mind and making it happen in a real-world system.  We have also budgeted to hire 3-5 youth assistants for 10 hours a week for about 4 months.  These young people will have very direct hands-on experience with the process of building the sculpture and everything that goes into it.  How we choose these individuals is something we plan to determine with our partners, the Children's Museum's Youth Alive program and the Carnegie Science Center's Mission Discovery program.

Ian

 

What it should say on the 1st Sunday of August?

by B R | Jul 29, 2009
 

What it should say on the 1st Sunday of August? If it is what I guess it should than I like this idea! Wouldn't it have huge social impact?!

Light up our Lives with words from beyond...

by a. b | Jul 29, 2009
 

The world from beyond, is above us, in - LEO - Low Earth Orbit! YOUR GREAT IDEA could make a sculpture of LEO to help it hover! Broadcasting on city streets, has been done BUT not with young NEW voices like you guys are doing it. Montreal actually broadcasts over speakers hung on street poles/lamps. Hearing the voices is fun & interesting, yet there could be more to learn from these voices. Hope your chidlren are 'living seeds of innovation' & inpsire the city to 'take an active roole in the minds of those voices'. Our planet is suffering from human neglect; i imagine voices in one (kind of) accord, speaking, whether comically, shallow &/or in depth, about the things we could all be doing as "a global race of 'earthlings'" humanly-empowed to educate the (local) world about the health of 'our' planet & the activities that we do to compliment, Mother Earth, for her good works!

Pace your Peace within Patience~!

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