LEAP (Linking Engineering and Philanthropy) is this weekend for PNW teams. The kickoff for this event is Thursday 11/20 at 7:30pm PST sharp. If you are taking part, or just want to see what it’s about for next year, you have a choice of being part of the kickoff in person at Catlin Gabel School in Portland or joining us on the web via Google Hangouts On Air. Currently there are 11 teams taking part, a great first year. You can read more and sign up at
www.team1540.org/leap.
IN PERSON
Come to Catlin Gabel School, 8825 SW Barnes Rd, Portland, OR , park in the main parking lot and come to the James Miller Library and it’s Gerlinger Auditorium downstairs. Doors will open at 7:00pm with the event starting at 7:30pm. We’ll watch an introductory 8 minute video, add some more information live, and then pepper Kevin Kearns, VP of exhibits at OMSI (and one of the judges), with questions. We expect most people will join via the web but if you are coming to the live event at Catlin, drop me a line with a headcount so I can save seats for you.
VIA THE WEB
Go to
www.team1540.org/leap-kickoff and hit refresh around 7:25pm Thursday. At that point you will be able to:
1- Watch the LEAP video. This can be watched via YouTube or a dropbox link. Some schools block one or the other of these so some testing in advance would be a good idea. YouTube you can test by going there and watching cat videos. Dropbox you can test by playing one of our STEMcentric tutorials at
http://www.stemcentric.com/ev3-tutorial
2. After you’ve watched the LEAP video, join the Google Hangout On Air. You will see a button taking you there on the
www.team1540.org/leap-kickoff page. You can test Google Hangouts now by going to
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/onair and joining one. You’ll need a Google account and Chrome is advised. The intro & Q&A will start at 7:40pm Thursday though it will be live at 7:15pm or so just so you can get everything working. We’ll keep that live while we’re watching the short movie here at Catlin but you’d be far better off watching the movie with the Youtube or dropbox links (#1 above.) Q&A is via text, not audio. To ask a question you hit the little icon with nine blocks at the top of the Hangouts player page and click on Q&A. We’ll have someone monitoring those questions. All this will be recorded on YouTube and posted on the kickoff page.
3. Read the rules. We’ll go over many of them briefly during the Q&A but you’ll see the button taking you there on the
www.team1540.org/leap-kickoff page.
OMSI SUNDAY 11/23
Everyone, whether putting together a booth or not, is invited to check out what the teams have come up with at the judging Sunday from 5:00-7:00pm. Teams can start loading in at 4:00pm (not before). Judging starts at 5:00pm.