Our Crowdfunding Groups
Dear TechHive supporters,
Thank you all for your amazing and generous donations. We are immensely grateful to everyone who donated and took the time to check out and support our campaign. We more than reached our campaign goal thanks for your collective contributions. All donations will go a long way to support teen design internships, and we really could not have done this without you.
We are also heartened to learn that many of the people who shared our campaign and donated included teens themselves, sending us a clear message that they value deep and meaningful supplemental learning experiences outside of school time. From strangers to community partners, friends and family, your support has made this happen for Bay Area teens, a majority which come from underrepresented groups in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math.)
We are already busy making social robots, planning design patterns, upgrading software, and scheduling speakers. The first cohort of teens will be giving presentations and demonstrations on December 19th, 2015 at the Lawrence Hall of Science. Please mark your calendars and join us in celebrating in their design accomplishments. We hope you will stay connected and continue to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr too as teens their work.
We are so excited to have met our fundraising goal and to have shared this project with all of you. On behalf of the TechHive and the Lawrence Hall of Science, a heartfelt thanks to everyone!
---Sherry, Hilary, & Ming and the TechHive team
It's been an exciting week with lots to report!
We are 92% into our campaign goal! Our crowdfund has raised also over $5000! This means we get our match from Chevron. Thanks to all our wonderful supporters!
Today, we made the final selections of the first of three cohorts of TechHive teens. Fall trimester students are arriving at the Lawrence Hall of Science in two weeks! TechHive teen interns are from Richmond, Oakland, San Pablo, Hayward, San Lorenzo, El Sobrante, El Cerrito, and other East Bay cities. They will be ready to give one big shout out of appreciation on their first day for sure.
Today was also the opening of the Richmond FabLab, the largest high school FabLab of its kind with digital fabrication and other flexible manufacturing machines. TechHive is excited to have this technological resource in our community to provide further opportunities to imagine, design, and make during school and in out-of-school time.
We are 66% into our goal and off to a great start! Thanks everyone who has contributed including TechHive students and alums! Your support is giving more teens design experiences and showing our awesome TechHive teachers that you care! Check out the Techhive Makerfaire 2015 project – Mole-A-Whack Exhibit - which involved cardboard prototyping, visitor testing, music composition, programming PCBs, robotics, making switches, doing carpentry, and sharing this experience with families! Hear it from the teens in this Mole-A-Whack video.
Today we launched our crowdfund campaign! Thanks to the first swift 13 supporters. Please share the campaign and help spread the word to others to show our strength in the numbers. Let's give more high school students an authentic hands-on learning opportunity in science, design, and engineering from a TechHive internship. Here is one example of how Techhive teen interns made an impact on other Bay Area teens by creating and hosting a Robot Petting Zoo makeathon last Spring. Check out the video! Thanks for your help in getting the word out.
Get a tweet and message of appreciation posted Tuesdays on the TechHive Twitter and Facebook group page, and an explosive shout out at our first TechHive teen orientation meeting.
Get a personalized written thank you card signed by a TechHive intern. Made with teen humor and ingenuity, and an explosive shout out at our first TechHive teen orientation meeting.
TechHive teens will craft a cardboard animal named after you. The animal will be on display in the TechHive makerspace at the Lawrence Hall of Science, and an explosive shout out at our first TechHive teen orientation meeting.
Receive a digital copy of a DIY origami light-up activity that you can fold and make a creative light-up sculpture along with thank you mention, plus an explosive shout out at our first TechHive teen orientation meeting.
Receive a personal invitation to attend a TechHive event featuring teen-created works, teen-inspired snacks, and teen-facilitated science and engineering activities; plus an explosive shout out at our first TechHive teen orientation meeting.
See your name in the rolling credits of a fun Teen-produced video that will be posted on YouTube. Video includes an explosive shout out of your name by teens at our first TechHive orientation meeting.
Like a golden ticket to Willy Wonka's factory, get a behind the scenes tour of the TechHive Makerspace to see where innovation, tinkering, design, and engineering take place. See projects and interactive demonstrations. Plus, get an explosive shout out by our teens at the first TechHive orientation meeting.
Get your name or your organization's name in a lasercut cardboard sign on the TechHive's wall of fame in the makerspace at the Lawrence Hall of Science. Get an an explosive shout out of your name by teens at our first TechHive orientation meeting included our You Tube Video thank you.
