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5 people are interested
Hardware Product Designer, Inventor, Engineer, Saturdays 11am-3pm
ORGANIZATION: The BOOM
Please visit the new page to apply.
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5 people are interested
The Bayview BOOM mentors at-risk teens in hardware design, prototyping, and entrepreneurship.
Saturdays, 11am-3pm, we're asking inventors and mechanical engineers to donate your engineering know-how for a Hardware Design Day. NOT a youth event.
The goal is to complete the design of the build we teach our apprentices-- and to take our mentoring to the next level.
You'll join a group of mechanical engineers and inventors, to learn about our specific engineering problems. Then, you'll break out into problem-solving teams.
Coffee and a light lunch will be served.
To register for 11/5 Designathon, please go here:
http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp2503606.jsp
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About The BOOM
Location:
c/o Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, 1325-B Evans Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94124, US
Mission Statement
The award-winning BOOM apprenticeship plants seeds for technical literacy, invention and resourcefulness. We’re on a mission to propel disadvantaged teens into prosperous futures as homegrown engineers, entrepreneurs, and tradespeople. We work with teens at-risk for guns, violence, dangerous drugs, criminal activity, prison, and truancy.
Description
Our transformative curriculum is designed to introduce our apprentices to electronics, soldering, woodworking, metalworking, RF, and embedded systems. In the future, we will engage apprentices in building and marketing a real-world hardware tech product, designed by competent engineers. Youth graduates will become eligible to join our youth hardware incubator, to develop their own hardware products.
The BOOM has been featured in Electronic Engineering Journal, Make Magazine, and other journals. Partners include Engineers Without Borders. We completed an Autodesk Residency.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
951B Hudson AvenueSan Francisco, CA 94124
DATE POSTED
October 12, 2016
SKILLS
- Electronics
- Robotics
- System Engineering
- Woodworking
- Mechanical Engineering
- Bike Mechanics / Repair
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- 4 hours
- Hands-on experience inventing, designing, or building hardware.