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Alan B. Scrivener
President, Human Interface Prototypes
Chair, San Diego Professional Chapter, ACM SIGGRAPH
The following are excerps from the original SIGKIDS 2003 proposal.
The following are our goals for SIGKids 2003.
Somewhat independently of the SIGKids projects, SIGGRAPH as a whole
has been increasingly emphasizing community outreach. Our most
important goal is to have a positive impact on our community.
Because know-how is so valuable and hard-won, it is important to
pass it on through mentoring relationships. Once the guilds which
governed artisans had apprenticeship programs. Today people
sometimes forget that knowledge can be lost.
Marc Barr, sigKIDS 2000 chair, wrote in his final report:
...I haven't ever been able to figure this out, either in my experiences with SIGGRAPH or in my academic life.
We are making it a priority to address this problem head-on. We want
to communicate to the adults in SIGGRAPH in such a way as to inspire
them to become mentors for children.
Because we don't want to simply repeat past achievements, and
because there is such strong support in the San Diego graphics
community, our goals include the following forms of growth:
The following is our proposal for SIGKids 2003.
SIGKIDS 2003 will be located at
The Computer Museum of America, located in downtown San Diego
at the intersection of Sixth Avenue
and C Street. The venue will consist of the following units:
The SIGKids venue will showcase winners of a juried competion in
a variety of categories designed to promote the goals listed
above. Entries can be computer programs, web sites, lab setups,
videos, or other media which inform the process using graphics
and/or interactivity in education.
Here is a tentative list of categories:
Awards will be given in each category to non-profit and for-profit
institutions, and also to individual classrooms and students.
The final list of categories will be determined by the
SIGKids advisory committee.
We will offer educational grant "prizes" to the non-profit
winners, ranging from $500.00 to $1000.00, free publicity to
for-profit winners, a "pizza party" and a SIGGRAPH speaker for
classrooms, and cash prizes of $50.00 to $100.00 for individual
students.
About twice as many runners up as winners will also be recognized.
Winners will be announced in advance of the 2003 SIGGRAPH conference,
on the SIGKids web site and in press releases. Winning and runner
up projects will be given space in the SIGKids venue to display
their results, and to allow kids to experience them.
In addition, in the event of a project produced
by a jury member or one of their direct associates,
the jury will reserve a special status of Display Project
to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest;
these projects will not be eligible for prizes and grants
but will have "runner up" status, and will be given space in the venue.
See People, below, for a tentative list of jurors and advisors.
As the largest city in the United States near the
border with Mexico, we are perhaps more aware of some
of the opportunities as well as problems associated
with the interface of our two cultures. We know
that bilingual is bicultural.
For example, few outside of San Diego may be aware that
Tijuana has a thriving underground digital music and art scene.
Another example: many studies of the differences in Anglo and
Hispanic culture have noted the contrast of the Anglo street
and the Hispanic plaza. Here in San Diego the "Old Town" --
the oldest settlement in Alta California -- was laid out in
the plaza plan dictated by Spain's King Phillip, and huddled
close to the Presidio for military protection from both hostile
Europeans and Native Americans. When Alonzo F. Horton laid out
the "New Town" on 4th Avenue (our current "Gaslamp Quarter")
he created commercial a street with warehouses and stores, and
a wharf on one end. Even today when the Children's Television
Workshop produces a Spanish language version of "Sesame Street,"
they call it "Plaza Sesamo."
For these reasons we recommend that any bilingual displays
be laid out as a Plaza instead of a Street.
We would like to have, in the SIGKids venue, the results of a
competition for the best Spanish-language 3D software
and videos,
selected by a local bilingual jury, staffed with bilingual
personnel.
We expect that this competition will receive wide
international coverage on the Spanish-language TV networks:
Telemundo, Gems, TVA, etc., as well as local coverage.
Especially with its position on the Pacific Rim San Diego
also hosts immigrants of every variety with a plethora of
languages, and even alphabets. It would impractical to expect
software developers and content providers to support all
of these, ands yet we do not want to exclude these children from
the enrichment of 3D graphics. The solution is communication
that does not require a specific language. Therefore we also
plan a competition for the best omnilingual (for all languages)
3D software and videos. Of course ominlingual also means
onmicultural, so we are aware this is a daunting task, but we are
asking for it to be done anyway, and who knows, we might get it.
To accomplish the above, we will have:
Goals
Community Outreach: A SIGGRAPH Priority
Mentoring: Pay It Forward
There aren't many people involved with SIGGRAPH who are either working with younger people or interested in them.
Growth: Pushing the Envelope
To accomplish this, we seek to model and create seed environments
which will:
Proposal
Museum Venue
SIGKids Competition and Prizes
Addressing Language Issues
Last update 13-Feb-2003 by ABS (abs@well.com).