/school/hand/academy
Saturday Academy
Saturday Academy offers all students exceptional opportunities for enriched learning by enlisting community professionals to share facilities, equipment and expertise through hands-on classes, workshops and internships. Since 1983, Saturday Academy has provided instruction to more than 110,000 students and teachers in urban, suburban and rural communities.
1633 SW Park Street Suite 067
Portland OR 97207
503 725-2330
news & blog search for Saturday Academy...
Nov 12, 2008Grant High School
GRANT HIGH SCHOOL Wednesday, November 12, 2008 SCHEDULE: Block Schedule Wednesday/Thursday ?Block Schedule, Fri ? Regular Schedule, MEETINGS Come learn about ASE (Apprenticeships in Science and Engineering) through Saturday Academy. Info meeting will be on Thurs. 11/13 at 8:30 am...
Dec 3, 2008BizMo Diaries
Elite academies involved in internationalization experiments around the XO, Pango or whatever, might enjoy Python 3.x's liberal top level identifiers policy.
Don't let the uniform Latin-1 appearance of the Standard Library scare you off.
Looking to give your students some R&R? They'll enjoy learning vector field concepts even during recess with Auditorium, not that snow fields and ice rinks can't teach the same things (remember: First Person Physics).
I showed up at Lincoln High today, met with some of the talent, brought home some paper work. I saw Saturday Academy posters, a Linux lab, lots of good quotes in the hallways, ads for a winter coat drive, notes about Oregon's hunger problem.
Having spent more hours in Cleveland and Grant, I found this visit a real eye-opener.
Nov 26, 2008BizMo Diaries
Don't let the uniform Latin-1 appearance of the Standard Library scare you off.
Looking to give your students some R&R? They'll enjoy learning vector field concepts even during recess with Auditorium, not that snow fields and ice rinks can't teach the same things (remember: First Person Physics).
I showed up at Lincoln High today, met with some of the talent, brought home some paper work. I saw Saturday Academy posters, a Linux lab, lots of good quotes in the hallways, ads for a winter coat drive, notes about Oregon's hunger problem.
Having spent more hours in Cleveland and Grant, I found this visit a real eye-opener.
[ reposting from Synergeo #45758, hyperlinks added ]
So as a former Minister of Education with portfolio, rotating position (might do it again), within, as ya'll know, our benign dictatorship called Python Nation, I've been marketing my rbf.py to gnu math teachers as a way to rationalize IB level vector studies around our eternal war of incommensurability aka the concentric hierarchy and its unifying dynamisms (jitterbug etc.).
rbf.py has gone through several incarnations, but the common feature is to can the core polys, lately in the form of a MySQL database, with students needing both LAMP and MVC in some approximate form (might be Ruby on Rails), in addition to computer graphics (i.e. 4D++ stuff, Eulerian topics like V+F = E+2, part of any state standard worth beans, duh).
AFAIK, my next major gig will be in Chicago where I'm doing a parallel processing demo, in the sense of two tutors running on independent threads, Steve Holden...
Sep 23, 2008Control Room
So as a former Minister of Education with portfolio, rotating position (might do it again), within, as ya'll know, our benign dictatorship called Python Nation, I've been marketing my rbf.py to gnu math teachers as a way to rationalize IB level vector studies around our eternal war of incommensurability aka the concentric hierarchy and its unifying dynamisms (jitterbug etc.).
rbf.py has gone through several incarnations, but the common feature is to can the core polys, lately in the form of a MySQL database, with students needing both LAMP and MVC in some approximate form (might be Ruby on Rails), in addition to computer graphics (i.e. 4D++ stuff, Eulerian topics like V+F = E+2, part of any state standard worth beans, duh).
AFAIK, my next major gig will be in Chicago where I'm doing a parallel processing demo, in the sense of two tutors running on independent threads, Steve Holden...
My title is an allusion to the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, also made into movies, and featuring grovelly (as in subservient) underclass boys and men begging for a wee bit more bread from the nasty authorities.
Cleveland High School isn't like that. The authorities are kind enough and the students are respected. But in terms of infrastructure, one can see Merry Old England under the hood: one jump rope for ten kids, calculators unused because of no budget for batteries, a general sense of going nowhere, a stale environment. This is the world of Major Barbara & Co., still going strong these hundred plus years later.
You'd think we wouldn't leave our pipeline to languish, given our need for skilled, high tech workers in ToonTown. That's where Saturday Academy comes in, other supplemental institutions with a charter for change. It's all about finding alternate routes, in addition to the well trafficked.
...
Jun 5, 2008BizMo Diaries
Cleveland High School isn't like that. The authorities are kind enough and the students are respected. But in terms of infrastructure, one can see Merry Old England under the hood: one jump rope for ten kids, calculators unused because of no budget for batteries, a general sense of going nowhere, a stale environment. This is the world of Major Barbara & Co., still going strong these hundred plus years later.
You'd think we wouldn't leave our pipeline to languish, given our need for skilled, high tech workers in ToonTown. That's where Saturday Academy comes in, other supplemental institutions with a charter for change. It's all about finding alternate routes, in addition to the well trafficked.
...
Saturday Academy is moving up in the world, and these are their best digs yet, right across from Multnomah Country Library, a sixth headquarters in twenty five years. Willamette Week was the former occupant of these premises. Furniture came from OSDL's Beaverton office during the latter's recent consolidation.I invited Tara along, thinking she might get in on some interesting conversation, and we were not disappointed. Gordon Hoffman, a Wanderer...
Pop Art has yet again engaged in the Apprenticeships in Science and Engineering (ASE) program for 2006 with Saturday Academy for the third year in a row.
Jun 19, 2008OregonLive.com: Everything Oregon
Shannon Worley held onto a suicidal stranger on the Morrison Bridge
» Read the story
After a long day at work last winter, Shannon Worley was headed downtown to buy her teenage daughter jeans. As they drove across the Morrison Bridge about 6:15 p.m., Worley noticed a car stop abruptly in the center westbound lane.
Kirby Urner fell in love with Iverson's APL (A Programming Language) while majoring in Philosophy at Princeton University.
He subsequently became a high school math teacher, then a contributing editor for computer literacy text books at McGraw-Hill. His programming career was mostly in the not-for-profit sector, including as a volunteer in Bhutan.
Today he works in the health care sector, and as a curriculum writer and teacher, including for Saturday Academy, one of Portland, Oregon's flagship alternative schools.
Kirby's philosophy background led him to explore the writings of American Transcendentalist R. Buckminster Fuller, which have influenced his curriculum writing. Python and Guido's CP4E have also been major influences.
He subsequently became a high school math teacher, then a contributing editor for computer literacy text books at McGraw-Hill. His programming career was mostly in the not-for-profit sector, including as a volunteer in Bhutan.
Today he works in the health care sector, and as a curriculum writer and teacher, including for Saturday Academy, one of Portland, Oregon's flagship alternative schools.
Kirby's philosophy background led him to explore the writings of American Transcendentalist R. Buckminster Fuller, which have influenced his curriculum writing. Python and Guido's CP4E have also been major influences.