RevKids

Event RevKids
Name	RevKids
Contact	Gori, Gert, gny, Trashman, Sebastius, ...
Duration	29 May 2016 - 29 May 2016
Information	A fun packed afternoon in the Space for kids with an interest in technology. * Location: RevSpace * Open from: 13:00

• When: Sunday 29 May 2016, 13:00 - 17:00(-ish)
• Target age: 4 and up
• Confirmed number of kids : 14 ish
  • (if you plan to come, please add to this number)

Supervision

• Gori & Carola
• Trashman
• Gny
• PeterC
• Gert
• ...

Food:

• candy
• popcorn
• roosvicee

Confirmed Activities

• Science demos (PeterC)
  • PrinceRupert drops, aka Dutch tears
  • Making silver mirrors
  • Dancing slime
  • Potassium permanganate + glycerin
• Programming
  • Scratch intro / walkthrough for kids by a kid: write your own game in 15 minutes (needed: table, projector, optionally: a few laptops to play along)
• (Video) games
  • Game cube
  • Vectrex
  • Geomag
  • OpenTilt
• Water rockets (Gert)
  • bike pump
  • compressor
• Electronics
  • Bristlebots
  • Bibberspiraal (benadski)
  • Computer seeds
  • LED Flower (Carola)
  • Dissasembly (pc, CD Rom)
• Forging demo ( Igor )

• Coffee and Tea for the parents

Ideas for projects

• LED flowers
• Squishy Circuits (Electronic Playdough)
• Electronic brain box
• Mega Duplo Trein
• Electromagnet
• Strawberry DNA Extraction
• Paintbots?
• PMR446 walkie-talkies

Activities details

• Prince rupoert drops
  • Needs acquiring rods of glass and polarizing filter to see tension
  • Beware of glass shrapnel - Gert has 10 kids size safety goggles.

Geomag

• igors has a few hundred of these : http://www.geomagworld.com/en
• some inspiration can be obtained here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=geomag&aq=f

Shopping list

What and how much, add asap, so that we can ask for budget

Peters Science Stuff:

• 10g Silver Nitrate: 25 Euro
• Nitric Acid 10-20 Euro
• Glycerin (Etos or Pharmacy)

(I'll add more as my experiments progress)

Polarising Filter / Glasses

Donations

RevKids costs money. We will ask the visitors to donate in the donation jar, and RevSpace participants are welcome to donate too! Please pledge below.

• Gori - around 50, paying for the chemicals and components for the LED Flower
• PeterC - around 25 euro to pay for the remainder of the chemicals + four boxes of lab glassware and my remaining chemicals
• Juerd - € 10
• Sebastius - € 10
• Gert - spending around € 50 on water rocket launch gear out of my own pocket. Will re-use the rig for other events later this summer too.
• benadski - Can donate up to € 25 ...

Total: 50+25+10+10+50+25 = 170

To Dos

• Toiletten en algemeen schoonmaak (acond en ochtend van te voren)
• create 5ish soldering stations with placemats/wood under them
• projecten voorbereiden (materiaal, test build, etc)
• Als alle bestelde onderdelen binnen zijn een en bijeenkomst plannen om te testen
• Final "Enge Dingen Removal" ochtend van te voren.
• Create donation pots
• Plan for cleanup in the evening

* Setup a plastic bottle collection point in the space