Would I be interested in being a featured guest lecturer for a group of high school students during one of their classroom days at the Invention Bootcamp? This would be for about two hours, either in the morning or afternoon of June 30, July 7, or July 14, depending on your availability.
Sure.
Invention Bootcamp is an intensive education experience for high school students. It is led by PSU faculty, Dr. Nathalie Neve and undergraduate students. page
My contact: Abby Chroman Impact Entrepreneurs School of Business Administration Portland State University.
What to say?
The bootcamp asks students that might not be considering college to, well, consider it. My own experience runs close enough to this that I might have something to say.
My professional accomplishments were too long-term and collaborative to offer a student an empowering vision. I would choose instead my dabbling with little computers for which I had left a trail of pictures, videos and a few still operational devices.
I wondered, could I describe what engaged me about these works in a way that a young maker could see themselves and thus find the energy to invest serious time into their own education?