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High TechCarnival Aims To Entertain, Inspire, and Educate
kkleiner writes "A self-described think tank of engineers and inventors called Two Bit Circus have completed a successful crowdfunding campaign to launch a high tech reinvention of carnivals from yesteryear. The campaign raised over $100k to launch the STEAM Carnival (as in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) to take place in Los Angeles and San Francisco next year. Showcasing robots, fire, and lasers, the goal of the carnival is to inspire young people into science and technology through these entertaining and educational events."
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I can just see the type of carnies this would create. Might be a good role for the socially awkward genius types :P
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(as in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math)
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...more than one MakerFaire?
You can only make so many blinkenlight, laser and propane torch based arduino projects.
As an East Coast resident who just now learned about this, I seethe with the jealousy of a thousand cuckolds.
You mean like Maker Faire?
no.. in maker faire you're supposed to learn about what's available for making stuff and meet other people who make stuff(so I've heard).
this is more like human asteroids and flashy lights.
kind of how you could go to an orgy(in theory) or a striptease joint(this).
some parts suppliers expo vs. e3(this). the trailer looks cool and all but dunno where's the science and education part(well that part is some science fair type compo).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/fair-is-taking-digital-leap/Content?oid=2442281
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/06/13/hi-tech-exhibits-join-farm-animals-carnival-games-at-san-mateo-county-fair/
Among the additions this year are a 3-D printer, a Frisbee-throwing robot made by students at Aragon High School, and a "reverse-engineering" exhibit where kids can take apart VCRs and computers to see how they work. Colaluca also has organized competitions in coding and app-making, and he deputized employees of local computer companies to judge them.
with all apologies to JMS
... I just shaved :/
There goes my idea for a RMS look.
Ah well, I can still put bits of cheese between my toes and eat those during the parade!
Can they really include Math in the STEAM acronym? Any time something comes up that is supposed to get kids interested in the STEM fields they never actually bring up math. They're like "ROBOTS, LAZERS, isn't it cool?!?!?!".
If I asked any kid exiting these events what they thought math was or how it was done, 99.9% of them would be wrong. A lot of this is due to the fact that the presenters themselves do not understand what actual math is.
Math is not intermediate algebra and calculus. Those are the product of real mathematics. While fundamental technologies rely on real math (von neuman machines -> CPU ) we never see this discussed at events like this and leave these very important details to be discovered at much too late a time. If they had a real exhibit on math I might consider going though.
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Can I suggest they could present darwin awards at the same time ?
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You want to inspire them, pay them more instead of offshoring their future after they reach 40.
Table-ized A.I.
A High TechCarnival would do more than "entertain, inspire, and educate" kids. I, a "grown-up" (finger quotes implied), would go just to play with all the cool gadgets that I can't afford in real life. Where does this leave science museums? Are they falling behind? How can they remain competitive?
The people who are interested in STEM and the people who like crowds have no intersection.