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DESCRIPTION:THE CHALLENGE\nTeams will have ten hours to concept and creat
 e a prototype that addresses the challenge. Successful ideas will connec
 t Portland citizens to their public schools\, and/or engage them in the 
 five ways schools have said would be most useful - a coat\, a can\, a bo
 ok\, an hour\, or a grand. The hack day will conclude with five-minute d
 emos of each team's projects.\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nOn June 2nd\, in collabor
 ation with the Mayor’s Office and GOOD Magazine\, we’re holding a Ha
 ck Day to explore how technology can be used to connect Portland’s pub
 lic schools with neighborhoods and business.\nThis project emerged from 
 a GOOD Ideas for Cities event that took place earlier this year. You can
  see the presentation on GOOD's site.\nhttp://www.good.is/post/supportin
 g-neighborhood-schools-a-good-idea-for-portland/\n\n\nTHE PROBLEM\n85% o
 f people in central Portland have no children of school age. This means 
 that the majority has no natural connection with the school system. We w
 ant to make it easier for that 85% to support Portland’s public school
 s.\n\nOur research with schools and supporting organizations showed that
  a few simple things – books\, food\, clothing and people's time – c
 ould make a big difference to students. We also learnt that there are ma
 ny organizations in Portland that are set up to support schools in these
  ways. We want to build a tool that makes it easy to find these organiza
 tions\, and to give resources to them.\n\n\nHACK DAY RESOURCES\nTo help 
 us solve this\, we’ll have representatives from Portland’s public sc
 hools and from some of the main organizations who are already supporting
  these schools. The Software Association of Oregon\, which has built Cit
 ySync will be joining us as well.\nDesigners and our partners will be av
 ailable on the day for further conversations about promotion of the tool
 s that we create.\nWe are also connecting with the Personal Democracy Fo
 rum taking place in NYC the following week\, and hope to feed the best i
 deas into that event.\n\nExtra info: nick.barham@wk.com\n\nTags: educati
 on\, public schools\, citysync\, plancast:plan=bnfu\n\nImported from: ht
 tp://calagator.org/events/1250462382
URL:http://hackforportlandschools.com/
SUMMARY:Hack for Portland's Schools
LOCATION:PIE: Portland Incubator Experiment : 1227 NW Davis Street\, Port
 land OR 97209 US
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