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Meetings Sunday January 8th!
January 4th, 2012Quick reminder, join us for our monthly General Meeting this Sunday and help us out getting this new year off on the right foot!
Big news! We are now a registered NM Non-Profit and we are very close to having everything ready with our 501(c)3 sponsor, so we need to get hopping on hunting down some donors, and grants! We need you for that!
Members are encouraged to come sit in on our Board Meeting, 5-6pm
Stay or arrive for some pizza. 6:00-6:30pm
Members and the public are encouraged to come to our planning meeting, 6:30-7:30ish pm
Stay afterwards for hacknight!
This is all at our headquarters, 1112 2nd Street NW! Be there!
December 23rd, 2011
Greetings Hackers and Makers!
Just as a FYI Quelab will not be officially open for hacknights Sunday the 25th or Sunday the 1st, Due to member holiday obligations. This does not mean the lab has to be closed. But just dont expect it to be open (feel free to drive by and if the open sign is on, there may be someone in there! (or recently was)If there are any bored members who need a place to slip away and hack feel free to post to the members list, or to the forums http://quelab.net/wordpress/
Otherwise hope to see some of you Tuesday the 27th, for our post holiday new gadget show&tell / boxingday old gadget give away, and hacknight.
Normal Hacknight schedule will resume January 3rd, and will continue as usual on the Tuesdays and Sundays Schedule (until we get enough critical mass of members and projects to support additional hacknights/hackdays!)
Our next board meeting,(for board and members) Will be Sunday January 8th, 5-6pm, and our planning/public meeting will be 6:30-7:30 Also on January 8th, please try and come we need input!
As always if you have questions or comments feel free to email us (its in the contact us section)
Event: Crowdfund This!
July 20th, 2011Quelab is partnering up with the New Mexico Tech Council NMTC to do a little workshop/presentation on Crowdfunding. Proceeds go towards funding Quelab for future community events/talks/classes
Crowdfund This!
A Community Fundraiser for Quelab
Crowdfunding or micro funding, has become a popular – and useful – way of raising funds for projects of all sorts, from movies to games, hardware, organizations and more. But while thousands have joined sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo to help take their project to the next level, the majority of projects are still not funded.
This workshop will help run the numbers and share what it takes to develop your solid project idea into a good candidate for funding from the wider community. Bringing together experienced pros from several community organizations, you’ll learn:
· Advantages and Disadvantages of different crowdfunding platforms
· Structuring the incentives your provide to your funders
· Budgeting to account for incentives, processing and other fees
· Honing your message
· Promoting your project
· …and more
Saturday August 6th
1:30 – 4:00 PM
Seating is limited reserve yours today Cash or Credit card Accepted $20
Reserve today (its pretty painless, if you want to save the fee, click on other payment options, you can pay cash or card at the door!)
http://crowdfundthis.eventbrite.com/
Edit: The session will be at the Harwood Arts Center So we can accommodate more people!
Harwood center is at,
1114 7th Street NW (7th and Mountain), In Albuquerque NM
Basement access is on the Mountain Side
Kids in the 1930′s Didn’t have xbox. So they played with Rockets!
July 20th, 2011Lets do it again!
Hopefully to excite you about rockets(and our big event on the 30th), here is a Modern Mechanics Scan, of a article published in February 1930! Basically its about a rocket powder one could buy back then, that went into a engine tube strapped to a model airplane. (effectively a J.A.T.O./R.A.T.O)
HOW to EXPERIMENT With ROCKET SHIPS (Feb, 1930)
Get busy and Make things!
Event: Air, Space, and Beyond! July 30th
July 15th, 2011
Thats right, we are prepping to launch our next big event.
This one is all about the bits of science that go woosh, boom and whee! Its going to be really are exciting.
We are going to have some folks showing off some amateur rocketry(the big stuff), We will be bringing back the human powered water/air rockets(ahh so refreshing!)
We are going to be having some paper plane building/testing contests.
If weather is good we are going to try and launch a large tethered balloon with a teeny video camera on it for some aerial photography.
After dusk, we are going to try and have a few astronomy related demos, Including a member from TAAS with his 17.5″ telescope! and still more ideas yet to be worked in!
We also have numerous guests invited to show and tell. Including the Challenger Learning center of NM
$10 Adults, (all proceeds go directly to keeping the space open and towards funding our future events), kids under 12 free with adult. As always Quelab Members always get in free!
Thats at 1112 2nd street NW
Starting: 5:00pm-going until 10pm
Saturday July 30th
BTW we are now less than 10 days from the end of our IndiGoGo micro funding fundraiser. we are still less than half of our goal, if you can spare any change please donate it, if you have already then please spread the word! We need your help! http://www.indiegogo.com/Keep-Quelab-Open
You or your kids a Space Nut?
July 5th, 2011Check this out, its conveniently themed around our month’s theme of Earth Sky and Air!
The Challenger Learning Center They are having exciting simulated space mission adventures! Right here in Albuquerque!
Give them a checkout, and then come to one or more of our Build/Hack/Make nights and help us plan some whopping fun times for our big “Earth, Sky and Air” event the last Saturday of the month!
Non fire, paper popper/banger/cracker
July 4th, 2011To continue the tradition of celebrating Independence day, in a safe way, but also respecting the fire danger and such we are facing in the drought parched southwest.
All you need is a nice bit of paper! And its easy to refold and use over and over again! takes a bit of arm speed so might not ve good for little kids, but then again most noisemakers/fireworks are not to be used by children under 8.
The following video has been marked as not being embedded, so I give you the simple youtube link.
http://youtu.be/74DK3wj1hAU
Have a fun 4th of July!
See Yourself Teaching article on “Becoming an Eco-McGyver”
May 16th, 2011These fine folks at See Yourself Teaching did a very nice blogpost on how Quelab’s public events are an example of one form of teaching while having fun. Thy have done and are continuing to do a lot for the mindset of teaching and education here in NM and hopefully for the world. They are also frequent co-sponsors of events like Ignite-NM!
Checkout their article on us! http://seeyourselfteaching.com/content/improvising-classroom-hands-quelab
Ignite Presentation Workshop
January 25th, 2011When: Thursday Jan 27th 6:30pm
Where: Quelab
Bring your slides and we’ll help you make sure your Ignite presentation is awesome!
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