Category Archives: Internships

Personal powerPlant goes Top 15!

Just got the news — the Personal powerPlant made the Top 15 in the Instructables Laser Cutter Contest! It’s now up to user votes, so go vote and help the girls win a new cutter!
(Which hopefully I can occasionally use. Hee.)
VOTE, bitches!

personal powerPlant

More fun news! I’d been working over the course of last month with Mouna Andraos, Jennifer Broutin, and Carmen Trudell at Eyebeam on ideas for the Alternative Energy Workshop (which went down on June 23rd), and from it came a killer idea: the personal powerPlant. People were coming to take the workshop in [...]

Grant proposal - putting babies on spikes

One of the excellent things about taking the Internship in Technology and Social Justice has been Marianne’s leadership and the bi-weekly class she leads for those taking the internship. Each meeting, we go over our various internship positions, share the best-and-worst of the job since we met last, and then talk a bit about [...]

Habana Labs #3

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DSCN7727, by doryexmachina.
Just got back a bit ago from Habana Labs’ third workshop, and it freaking ruled. Jeff set up this great series with the help of Habana Outpost and Glide Design Studios (who [...]

Internin’

So this semester’s internship set looks like it’ll work out amazingly — working for Rushkoff doing stuff that’s here, there and everywhere (and apparently having brunch in places that Willam Defoe frequents, as he sat behind me last week), and working for Vision Education & Media two days a week, teaching audio software to kids [...]