Handmade vs. High Tech
I believe the children ARE the future, teach them well and yadda yadda yadda,
The growing industry is competitive and the game has just been raised to a new level. We have been racking our brains, talking about the new permaculture and what it means. Basically, it means living in the world as it exists rather than trying to make it revert back to some idyllic time when all nature was in harmony. To be honest, and this is just my opinion, I think the ship has sailed on that one.
So we have to look to the future. We have to define a new paradigm. We have to find something, some way of life that takes into account that there are some things that simply are not going away, as well, that there are some new things that can be useful.
Coder21 is a group of young girls in Atlanta who need computers. Well, they need a lot of things but let's start with computers, laptops. The question becomes how. Rather than going against the flow, though, we learn to work with the flow in positive ways. We are trying to teach them to see solutions where others only see problem.
How do you engage a large number of people for a common purpose? We decided to create an app. A simple program that connects people to the very thing that they are looking for. These young ladies are getting real world, hands on experience in something that interests them; coding. They are solving an actual problem and ideally creating something that will earn them the money to keep the initiative going. It is the only thing of its kind that we can see.
The challenge for the girls is to create the app. The app will be map based and allow people to find businesses in their area that are independent and local. Some would say that is the easy part. The hard part is getting someone to support it.
The goal for the girls is something of their own creation that acts in service to something that means something to them...two things. First, these young w
omen, ages 10-17 are empowered to solve a problem in the real world in a high tech way. They are not trying to get some imaginary person's apples to market. They are literally trying to get someone's products to market. Secondly, and I think most importantly, they are doing it in a way that meshes with the real world. There is no attempt to remove or manipulate obstacles.
This was just a quick musing about something that I am fascinated with. So often we think that things are one thing or the other, binary. We think that if a kid has a laptop, they can have no notion of what it is like to make something or dig their hands in the dirt. We are seeing that not only is it possible, it is necessary because of the way our world is now. We need to produce things and we need to get them to market as efficiently as possible. We need to understand that there is no escaping this now. We need encourage kids to not only work with what they have but to take that which they are given and make it better.
If you are in South Carolina or Georgia, I recommend taking a moment to support what they are doing and see how to get involved. We are already looking at more ways to challenge them and trust me, there are plenty.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-friday-handmade-holiday-app-launch-tickets-28730209831
You can email at 21centurycoders@gmail.com
You can follow on twitter @code21atl
The growing industry is competitive and the game has just been raised to a new level. We have been racking our brains, talking about the new permaculture and what it means. Basically, it means living in the world as it exists rather than trying to make it revert back to some idyllic time when all nature was in harmony. To be honest, and this is just my opinion, I think the ship has sailed on that one.
So we have to look to the future. We have to define a new paradigm. We have to find something, some way of life that takes into account that there are some things that simply are not going away, as well, that there are some new things that can be useful.
Coder21 is a group of young girls in Atlanta who need computers. Well, they need a lot of things but let's start with computers, laptops. The question becomes how. Rather than going against the flow, though, we learn to work with the flow in positive ways. We are trying to teach them to see solutions where others only see problem.
How do you engage a large number of people for a common purpose? We decided to create an app. A simple program that connects people to the very thing that they are looking for. These young ladies are getting real world, hands on experience in something that interests them; coding. They are solving an actual problem and ideally creating something that will earn them the money to keep the initiative going. It is the only thing of its kind that we can see.The challenge for the girls is to create the app. The app will be map based and allow people to find businesses in their area that are independent and local. Some would say that is the easy part. The hard part is getting someone to support it.
The goal for the girls is something of their own creation that acts in service to something that means something to them...two things. First, these young w
omen, ages 10-17 are empowered to solve a problem in the real world in a high tech way. They are not trying to get some imaginary person's apples to market. They are literally trying to get someone's products to market. Secondly, and I think most importantly, they are doing it in a way that meshes with the real world. There is no attempt to remove or manipulate obstacles.
This was just a quick musing about something that I am fascinated with. So often we think that things are one thing or the other, binary. We think that if a kid has a laptop, they can have no notion of what it is like to make something or dig their hands in the dirt. We are seeing that not only is it possible, it is necessary because of the way our world is now. We need to produce things and we need to get them to market as efficiently as possible. We need to understand that there is no escaping this now. We need encourage kids to not only work with what they have but to take that which they are given and make it better.
If you are in South Carolina or Georgia, I recommend taking a moment to support what they are doing and see how to get involved. We are already looking at more ways to challenge them and trust me, there are plenty.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-friday-handmade-holiday-app-launch-tickets-28730209831
You can email at 21centurycoders@gmail.com
You can follow on twitter @code21atl
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