Viva Brighton Issue #30 August 2015

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You can fosterif you aresingle or in arelationship;if you ownor rent yourhome.fosteringrecruitment@brighton-hove.gov.ukwww.fosteringinbrightonandhove.org.ukPlease contact <strong>Brighton</strong> & Hovefostering on 01273 295444Find us on:<strong>Brighton</strong> & Hove City Councilare actively recruiting foster carersfrom our LGBT communities.Our current LGBT foster carers and adopters have helped totransform many children’s lives and we are keen to build ontheir success.You will need a spare room and childcare experience and beable to give children and young people the care and supportthey need to be happy and fulfilled.
maker club...........................................Big Tech SummerMaking technology funTo say that DeclanCassidy of MakerClubis a live-wire would beboth a cliché and anunderstatement. Wemeet in PresumingEd’s on London Road;MakerClub havingmade their home upstairs.He orders freshmint tea and revealsthat he can’t have caffeine. I’m not surprised. Declanis one of those people who vibrate on an entirely differentfrequency to the rest of us (I’m guessing at leastdouble). You can gauge the speed of the ideas in orbitas his fingers trace their trajectories in the air.I quickly establish that he studied Anthropology andPolitics at Sussex, set up and ran the Playgroup FestivalCompany for seven years, and then the hugelypopular and much missed Blind Tiger Club. He sayshe realised that he needed to slow down when hisbeard fell out. Next he joined ranks with Simon Rileywho, with an electronic-engineering backgroundand a passion for unlocking the technological talentsin young people, had already created Carduino (a3D-printed car that can be customized, printed,and controlled via a smartphone). Far from slowingdown, the two of them spent six months in Fusebox24 (a Wired Sussex incubator), then kick-started andcrowd-funded their way to MakerClub with just£4,500. They’ve created a space worthy of the maddestprofessor: equipped with computers, 3D printersand all the kit they need to teach kids programming,product design, electronics and engineering.We meet as they are putting together the finalpreparations for Big Tech Summer – a series of 60workshops for kids aged six plus. Spread over sixweeks, and taught bytheir tech-savvy teamand industry professionals,the packedschedule includesRoborigami (see page55), 3D printing andprogramming robots,videogame design, codingLego robots, realworldMinecraft andmuch more besides. There’s plenty of analogue funtoo – lots of cardboard, sticky tape and playdough.Although, naturally, the playdough – by some supersalty and sugary trickery – is rendered conductive,creating ‘squishy circuits’.I voice my concern that the neighbourhoods of thefuture will be all grey blocks, square trees and cuboidpigs but Declan informs me that the UN have beenusing Minecraft in city planning for ages and that arecent re-imagining of London Road was assistedby local kids using the game. With young peopleincreasingly consuming their world through technology,MakerClub is on a mission to ensure that theyknow how to control it whilst having as much fun aspossible. They do this by working jointly on creativeprojects and learning computational thinking – somethingdifficult to fit into a rigid school curriculum –combining art, coding, electronics, design technologyand teamwork. “These kids are the big dreamers andthey are going to change the world.” Declan muses.“We want them to have the skills and opportunitiesto do it.” There are some courses for adults on thetimetable but I leave wishing I was ten years old andthat my parents would drop me off at MakerClub andpick me up six weeks later. Lizzie Lowermakerclub.org / 01273 915133....83....
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