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Monday 3 June 2019

Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology

Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology
14 by dv35z | 10 comments Hello! I need some tech “show and tell” ideas for 5th graders. I've been asked to come to a 5th grade (ages 10-11) at a school with mostly underprivileged kids, from low income, immigrant families. The presenters are encouraged to do a cool "show and tell" about their job, get the kids excited etc. For example, I heard a lawyer set up a fictional courtroom and gave the kids a script to perform. A baker came in and had the kids decorate cupcakes. A FBI agent came in and let the kids try on a bulletproof vest & an FBI windbreaker. I'm a software engineer, now R&D product manager at a cloud platform software company. Aside from programming, I'm into video games, photography, video editing, drones, and similar techy/creative hobbies. I'd love to hear what ideas you all might have to totally wow some kids, get them excited about science/tech... And obviously out-wow any firemen, FBI agents, that might be presenting. Give me a fighting chance anyway!! Thanks!

Wednesday 29 May 2019

Sunday 13 January 2019

Ask HN: Favorite technology predictions in science fiction?

Ask HN: Favorite technology predictions in science fiction?
17 by focal | 5 comments I loved @ajus's comment about Stansislaw Lem's ebook prediction in 1961[1]. Another favorite is E.M. Forster's prediction of video calling and more in 1909 with The Machine Stops[2]. "But it was fully fifteen seconds before the round plate that she held in her hands began to glow. A faint blue light shot across it, darkening to purple, and presently she could see the image of her son, who lived on the other side of the earth, and he could see her." [1] http://bit.ly/2HcMfwI [2] http://bit.ly/vyOHpm