Category Archives: Outreach

Share the Sharing!

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I have really enjoyed sharing and giving my Squirrel airplanes away as donations. Since I have been sending stuff to Dinkar in India, some of my friends have gotten on the bandwagon!

Here is a box of Denny Darts from my friend Neil Dennis that was sent to Dinkar.

Also Bill Kuhl (one of the early evangelists of the Squirrel) sent some educational kits.

My cousin has made a donation and a couple of my local friends have pitched into these sorts of efforts.

What’s better than sharing? Sharing the sharing.

 

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Donation to India

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A bunch of Squirrels in the “Zen Boxes” made by our unique “Box-o-matic” using reused cardboard.

I made up another box for my pen-pal Dinkar in India.

It went out with the mail today.

It contains 20 Squirrels and one Minnow kit which he expressed interest in.

As you can see in the pictures the Squirrels in the box for Dinkar don’t have any packaging.

This really saves money on postage.

There’s a picture of some packaged Squirrels too (which are pretty efficient but not as efficient as the way I send them with my donations.

There is also a picture of the Minnow kit which is designed by Lloyd Shales.

I forgot to include a letter I’m writing for him and also some lubricant for the elastic rubber motor. I will send that in a chaser package as soon as I finish the letter.

 

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Flying session at senior center (Ottawa)

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I spent my afternoon at a senior center today. My helper was Alice (pictured). After the flying session we had a brew at the pub across the street (wohoo). At our pub meet we made a couple of paper planes and got the whole place going crazy throwing them around.

It was a great day at the senior center. Breezy but the senior center has a courtyard that is sheltered as you can see by the sky picture I took.

This was the second flying session at this location. I must say that the seniors (not pictured for legal reasons) started to respond very strongly towards the activity.

I am happy to report that many of them launched the planes which rose to 3-4 stories height and they were laughing, clapping and getting excited. A couple of them started to learn to wind the planes.

This is very valuable since the physical, intellectual and social activity surrounding simple model planes is just right for seniors.

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Camera for School Teacher in India

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Dinkar Narwad is a school teacher in India. He has been borrowing a camera and using his phone camera to share what he”s been up to with the world.

We sent him a camera but it was lost in the mail. If anybody has a digital camera with video they’re not using and you’d like to donate it please contact us!

If you’d like to make a donation towards a purchase of a camera (and shipping it to India), please follow this button.

The camauera that went missing in the mail:

Serial Number: KCXGW72400826

Model: Kodak Z1275 Zoom Digital Camera

Found using: http://regex.info/exif.cgi

Here are some pictures of the box I used to send my old camera as well as a picture of the camera.

 

 Update August 6, 2012:

No-one came forward with a donation so I bought one myself. It is on it’s way as of 11:45am today.

I purchased it in USA and had it shipped directly to India.

I got a good deal on one thanks to thecamerabox (ebay ID).

Nikon chargers work on 240V so the only challenge will be the plug-in style. An adapter may be needed. I am assuming it has a North America 110/120V plug in chord.

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