[AG-TECH] Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day

[Locatis, Craig (NIH/NLM/LHC)]

Steve & others,

I offered the NLM institutional venue and offered to collect the names of
those interested, but there hasn't been many message posted about this
since.  My offer is still good, but perhaps it should be a lobby event.
Last year, when it was in the Motorola venue, not all participating nodes
were present all the time or, if they were online, there was no one at the
site to interact with.  

The lobby makes it likely some one will be present whether they are
participating in the Bring Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day event or not.
Wherever it is, NLM plans to be present from 9 am to 4 pm eastern time.
We're not scheduling anything formal.  We will have it to show anyone who
happens to drop in.  Ideally, we hope there will be other children or adults
at other sites that they might interact with.

Craig


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Slocombe [mailto:s-slocombe at northwestern.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:47 AM
To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day

Northwestern has showed some interest in this event for their "Bring your
daughters to work day" and I'm
wondering if this is still in the works and if so has this been scheduled or
would it just be a meet in the
lobby affair?
Thanks.
Steve
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Jennifer Teig 
> von Hoffman
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:56 am
> To: shudo at ni.aist.go.jp
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov; jsm at WPI.EDU; ian.roberts at pnl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day
> 
> These are interesting comments. Thank you, Shudo-san.
> 
> It makes me wonder whether it might be interesting at some 
> point it might be interesting to have an event on the AG for 
> children, and try to organize it in a way which could be 
> enjoyable for people regardless of the language they speak. 
> Young children in particular often play in ways that don't 
> require speech (for example, games which are all about 
> clapping their hands and repeating rhythms); I wonder if 
> somebody who knows more about children and their 
> communications styles might have ideas for how such a thing 
> could be facilitated.
> 
> I agree that in the AG community we have the opportunity to 
> have global/diversity awareness, and hope that we keep 
> striving for it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jennifer
> 
> shudo at ni.aist.go.jp wrote:
> 
> > From: shudo at ni.aist.go.jp
> > 
> > 
> >>>trivial pursuit is good - is there a way to make this 
> international?
> >>>
> >>>if so, what activity crosses cultural lines?
> >>
> >>Assuming that you are in charge of operating a Daughters 
> and Sons Day 
> >>event between US and Korea, US and Japan, or US and 
> Thailand, what do 
> >>you do?
> >>
> >>What do you mean by `international'?
> > 
> > 
> > I am sincerely interested in what each of us means by 
> "international".
> > Anyway, I try to be more productive.
> > 
> > It is good for us to aware of the following facts (, which 
> you might 
> > have already noticed):
> > 
> > I also believe "Take Your Child to Work Day" is a very good 
> > opportunity to understand each other for families.
> > But, what cultures/countries have the event?
> > It was initiated in the U.S. in 1993.
> > Several additional cultures/countries may have such an 
> event but it is 
> > not widely known at least in Japan.
> > 
> > Trivial pursuit is not always known to outside US.
> > 
> > Children from multiple cultures/countries generally do not have a 
> > common language.  English is a very important common means to 
> > communicate but the number of people whose native or second 
> language 
> > is English is only 800 million (and others who can speak 
> English are 
> > about 800 million).  I am sure over 95 % of K-12 children in Japan 
> > cannot speak English as I was so.
> > 
> > I do not think all events should be international, but AG 
> people has 
> > especially many opportunities to have global/diversity awareness. I 
> > hope my point of view helps.
> > 
> >   Kazuyuki Shudo
> >   Grid Technology Research Center
> >   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology 
> > (AIST)
>