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LittleRedWoodshop
08-12-2012, 11:07 AM
KET or Kentucky Educational Television is our local PBS affiliate and they invited us to their Super Saturday event. The idea behind this event is to share science with kids. We got to share the world and the art of CNC with them ..... AWESOME. The final count was 1634 people in 5 hours and that's just the people the registered at the door.

It was amazing to watch the kids ... young ones - figuring out the software and being amazed by how the machine makes those images appear in the wood. I would like to think that there may have been a future software and mechanical engineer that visited us. A Big Thank You to Lisa Meek at KET for the invite and Michael "The CNC Geek" Culp from www.DragonWorksStudio.com (http://www.DragonWorksStudio.com) and Lindsey "I'm not an Architect" Elza for all of your help.

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Yes that is a CarveWright machine in the background ... we got to share the software and the machines with the kids. It is truly amazing to watch how quickly kids get it. Thank you again to KET (Kentucky Educational Television, PBS Affiliate) for inviting us to this "Super Saturday" ... we are looking forward to next years event.

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fwharris
08-12-2012, 12:08 PM
Jason,

That is great and sounds like it was an awesome time with the kids!

mtylerfl
08-12-2012, 12:55 PM
I'm very proud of you, Jason. Again, you have demonstrated your commitment to introduce and expose people to the remarkable capability of CNC technology (particularly CarveWright CNC). This event is especially cool - showing young people how they can take advantage of the creative possibilities will impact them positively for the rest of their lives! Hats off to you and the others who helped with this special event!

lawrence
08-12-2012, 01:09 PM
That's just AWESOME - (and I think I recognize the ornament in the last pic!)

Great job and thanks for sharing your experience with us

Lawrence

CNC Carver
08-12-2012, 01:21 PM
Jason great way to spend time with the kids and offer great experience. Way to go.

ladjr
08-12-2012, 01:27 PM
That is really great to give the kids something to do.


Leo
Life is to short carve something today

badbert
08-12-2012, 01:30 PM
Give 'em a couple hours, and they will be teaching us!

Capt Bruce
08-12-2012, 02:03 PM
Super event Jason. Well done Sir

Smoken D
08-12-2012, 02:52 PM
Now that was really something. Glad you could do it and have a great time with the kids!

LittleRedWoodshop
08-12-2012, 07:09 PM
Thank you all for the nice words ... it was an awesome event. We are going to start contacting the local schools to see about being part of the tech days, assemblies, whatever they will let us be part of. Having the van and trailer has made this all sooooo easy.

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LittleRedWoodshop
08-13-2012, 12:33 PM
More pics ...

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dbfletcher
08-13-2012, 12:47 PM
Pretty darn cool. I love things that involve younger kids. It's nice to pull them away from their video games once in a while.

mav36
08-13-2012, 10:44 PM
A couple of weeks ago, I took the family to Dearborn Michigan to the Henry Ford Museum and that weekend was the Makers Faire. http://www.makerfairedetroit.com/ Alot of family fun and the Epilog Laser club from Detroit was there also. From what I could find out it is free to setup there (after being approved) $100.00 to sell stuff there. 450 people had booths there inside the museum and outside. Just to let you know my wife is not into geek tech stuff much but was told next year, we are doing 2 days instead of 1. But all in all the kids loved it and they had alot of things for young and old there.