Thanks to a $1000 grant from the KW Awesome Foundation, we will be conducting a pumpkin carving and learn-to-solder workshop for kids 8+.

Meta-Bits

Organizer

Ben

Participants

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Date

Mid-to-late October, 2011

Who's doing what?

Materials needed

Tasks

Venue

Pumpkins

co-ordinator: Doug Moen

We'll find a pumpkin farm or other vendor who is willing to bring pumpkins to the venue, sell them, and take back the unsold pumpkins. (We'd like to avoid this task ourselves.)

Pumpkin carving knives

Electronics: the "pumpkin card"

Soldering irons, solder, LEDs, etc

Publicity

Budget and capacity planning

How much money are we spending per kid (cost of electronics, knife, etc)? What are the fixed costs (venue, possibly insurance)? Based on the foregoing, and a $1000 budget, how many pumpkin carvers can we support? The current rough estimate is 100 kids.

Event Management (on the day of)