[Chicago] Fwd: Educator grants available for PyCon Canada 2013

[sheila miguez]

Please forward this to people involved in high school education. I don't
know if they'd actually have time to go to a conference, but Pycon Canada
talks are on Saturday and Sunday, so it might be doable.

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From: Michael DiBernardo <debo at pycon.ca>
Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:35 AM
Subject: Educator grants available for PyCon Canada 2013
To: pyconca at googlegroups.com


Hi all,

Thanks to Shopify, we are able to sponsor a few highschool educators to
come to PyCon Canada 2013 -- the goal is for them to take their learnings
from the conference and to potentially pass down those lessons to their
students.

We could really use your help in sourcing good candidates for these grants
-- please send to all your education-y friends!

Thanks!
-Debo

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PyCon Canada is Canada's national conference focused on the Python
programming language, which we are holding for the second time from August
9th-13th, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario.

We held the first PyCon Canada in November of 2012, which attracted
top-tier speakers and over 200 developers, educators, and learners. We also
offered a Diversity Grant program, by which individuals of underrepresented
groups in the Python community could apply for funding to attend.

This year, we are growing to a capacity of 350+, and we've already been
heralded for our focus on diversity -- 2 of our 3 keynotes and 50% of our
featured speakers list are women (http://pycon.ca/learn).

We wanted to go a bit further, though, and bring the learning opportunities
available on the ground at PyCon Canada to educators from remote
communities who generally do not have access to top-tier technology
conferences.

If you are a highschool educator in computer science or a related field, we
would invite you to apply for one of our "educator grants" by contacting us
at board at pycon.ca with the following :

- Telling us a bit about yourself
- supplying a short paragraph on why you would like to attend
- The estimated cost of travel (i.e. cost of your transportation only) to
and from Toronto for the period of Aug 9-11th, 2013

We are especially interested in applications from teachers who are from
remote or underprivileged communities, or who would otherwise have
difficulty accessing and attending a top-tier tech conference in North
America.

Education is a huge emphasis at PyCon Canada 2013 this year:
- one of our keynotes Karen Brennan researches the ways in which learning
communities support young people's development as computational creators.
- We are holding a webmaker workshop for youth aged 12-18
- Several talks will be focused on education and on introductory Python
concepts

We hope that by attending PyCon Canada 2013, highschool educators can take
the lessons learned and relationships forged at our conference and
disseminate them to their students and colleagues in their home communities.

If you have any questions about this program, please don't be shy --
contact us at board at pycon.ca.

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sheila
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