Lakewood Computer Clubhouse

The Lakewood Computer Clubhouse will host the first meeting of the Lakewood Robotics Consortium, Wednesday March 17th, 6:00 to 8:00 PM.  The meeting will take place at the Clubhouse at Lakewood Presbyterian Church – 8601 104th St SW – Lakewood –  WA – 98498.

A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal.

Consortium is a Latin word, meaning ‘partnership, association or society’ and derives from consors ‘partner’, itself from con- ‘together’ and sors ‘fate’, meaning owner of means or comrade.

The purpose of the consortium is to promote robotics, organize and train robotics teams , furnish mentors and provide information on competitions.  The goal is to pool resources in such a way that Lakewood youth have an opportunity to learn robotics and Lakewood teams are represented in numerous regional competitions.  Computer Clubhouse youth have participated in First Lego League and VEX competitions but there are several other types out there.    See HERE and HERE

Our first meeting will include demonstrating LEGO NXT and VEX robotics, youth and teens talking about their competition experiences and a brainstorming session on how to get youth involved.

Parents, teachers, youth, college students are all welcome to attend.

As you are aware, we have been working on video production here at the clubhouse. On Saturday, March 13^th 2010, we are taking a group of 9 clubhouse members to Seattle to learn more about the industry. This film-trip will include:

• A one hour meeting with a Casting Director/Production Person at Theatre Puget Sound. Here your child will have the opportunity to learn more about different careers in the field. There will be plenty of time for Q&A during this class.
• Next on the itinerary is a 45 minute tour at the KCTS 9 studio where we’ll have the opportunity to see, first hand, how a professional studio operates
• We will break for a sack lunch (provided by the Clubhouse) after the tour
• Before heading home we plan to visit the Pacific Science Center where we’ll learn how our eyes and brains work together to operate in a 3dimensional world and how technology is used to produce movies in 3D

The van will leave the Clubhouse at 8:45am and return by 5pm. You will need a permission slip and return it, along with a $9 admissions fee, to the Clubhouse no later than March 6^th. If you’d like to send additional funds to sponsor (or partially sponsor) another child please do. Depending on availability we may be able to provide some assistance. Please contact Rain or Kurt at the Clubhouse for more information.