Hi, What's their budget? Making something concrete with Arduinos would be my preference.
Cheers, Dave. Kevin Cole wrote: > Hi, > > Here at Gallaudet University, due to the English literacy barriers faced > by many deaf individuals, our students tend to skew a bit older than > average, since so many resources depend on written language. The > database class, plus guests, just had a presentation by Oracle about > their ThinkQuest competition, and after getting excited, about half of > the audience learned that they were over the age limit for the competition. > > The prof's got them thinking about Microsoft Imagine Cup now. (Haven't > checked the age limits there.) > > Ewww! I, naturally want to push something that's at least sorta friendly > to FOSS. > > I mentioned GSoC and the OLPC Contributors program but I think the > professor's looking for a "competition" rather than a "project". > Personally, I also think our students would do better with > "collaboration" rather than "competition" since (a) you don't "lose" and > (b) it's open-ended: Students who participate in such efforts go on to > become professionals who participate in such efforts and end up > mentoring the current crop of students who go on to become > professionals... Ain't recursion grand? ;-) > > Thoughts? Opportunities? > > -- > Kevin Cole | Key ID: 0xE6F332C7 (GPG/PGP) > Gallaudet University | WWW: > http://research.gallaudet.edu/~kjcole/ > Dawes House 305 | V/TTY: (202) 651-5135 > Washington, D.C. 20002-3695 | FAX: (202) 651-5746 > > Linux: The flagship of Free, Open Source Software (FOSS) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
