<br>Hello Makers!<br><br> The HSIS Competition group met up this Monday, and we're off to a great start. We've got some good ideas rolling, and Bill Brown has offered to help us out. Bill was the FIRST person in the US to launch a Balloon Satellite, over 22 years ago.<br>
<br>In related news, the group hosting the HSIS competition has offered to be the competitive branch of the new Hackerspace Awards!<br><br>The brainstormed Hackerspace Awards is currently composed of two branches, the Competitive Awards and the Merit Based Awards. <br>
<br>The Merit Based Awards would be selected from projects nominated from any hackerspace.<br><br>The proposed Merit Based Awards so far are:<br><ul><li>Hackerspace Improvement:
A project that benefits members of hackerspaces, or better improves the
quality of their hackerspace. A project that not only demonstrates
innovation, but is something that all hackerspaces could benefit from.
</li><li>Cost Efficiency:
Let's say that the cheapening factor has to be around x20 for instance
(replicate for $200 the functionality of a $4000 machine) at the moment of the award.</li></ul><ul><li>Mad Science - A category for projects that exemplify crazy mixed with fun
</li><li> Networking
</li><li> Electronics
</li><li> Media (video/audio)
</li><li>Your idea here!<br></li></ul>If you would like to get involved in the Hackerspace Awards, or make some suggestions for award categories, there is a collaboration page available here:<br><i><a href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspace_Awards/Brainstorm">http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspace_Awards/Brainstorm</a></i><br>
<br>Similarly, if you are interested in joining in the fun with Makers Local 256 for the HSIS competition, information on how is available here:<br><i><a href="http://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/index.php/HSIS">http://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/index.php/HSIS</a></i><br>
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