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

[Steve Slocombe]

Craig and all interested,
The Northwestern AG site will be open on April 28th from 9am to 4pm CDT for this event.  
Perhaps, as someone mentioned in an earlier post, Argonne could offer the use of one of their rooms so that
others could bridge in if needed. 
As one small activity, I could have a VNC server running with a white board, so that students could sign their
names and where they are from for all to see.
Steve


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Locatis, 
> Craig (NIH/NLM/LHC)
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:07 pm
> To: 's-slocombe at northwestern.edu'
> Cc: (ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov)
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day
> 
> 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)
> > 
> 
>