<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>tl;dr If you are interested in helping out with TNG Playground, please let me know and subscribe to the scale-kids mailing list.  </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>We are going to have TNG Playground again this year, on Saturday, March 10th.  It will be similar in format to last year's event.  The goal is to provide a hands-on activities room for the kids at SCALE.  Last year, most of the kids were 7-14, but there were some younger kids and adults who also participated.</div><div><br></div><div>Avni did a fantastic job of organizing it last year with Kids on Computers; however she is unable to make it to SCALE this year.  <br></div><div><br></div><div>This year, I am organizing it with the help of Vivienne Byrd from the  Los Angeles Public Library.  Avni gave me a lot of info from last year and we might still be able to borrow some computers from Kids on Computers.  </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>We'll do our planning on scale-kids and I will set up a Google Drive with notes.  I'm a bit swamped this week with work, but I'll post a link to the Google Drive later.  If you're interested in helping out, let me know, and please subscribe to the scale-kids mailing list.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.linuxfests.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scale-kids">https://lists.linuxfests.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scale-kids</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>About TNG Playground</div><div>-------------------------------</div><div>SCALE 15x TNG Playground: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/tngplayground" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12.8px"><font color="#1155cc"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12.8px">http://tinyurl.com/</span></font><wbr><span class="gmail-il" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12.8px">tngplayground</span></a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">TNG Playground provides a place where the kids at SCALE can do hands-on, self-guided activities at different stations or pods. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Each pod or station will have a station lead, who comes up with the content for the pod and will set up the station.  The pods can be handed off to day-of volunteers who  sign up for hourly shifts.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We will have 4-5 pods, and there will be 4 stations per pod, which allows participation by 4-8 students per pod.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:aria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