DV8, Preston Road, Brighton
In attendance
- Richard Freeman DV8
- Anna Pedroza Communications and Media Consultant
- Jo Robson Albion in the Community
- Gary Newport Bexhill College
- Danny Roman Datawork Studio
- Marit Thowsen Amex
- Ally Hillier Amex
- Rose Locken London Knowledge Lab
- Katerina Ramirez London Knowledge Lab
- Sue Korman Learn Local First & Unique Brighton
- Alyn Caborn Mentoring Digital Minds
- Gill Ditch Education Business Partnership
- Bronagh Liddicoat STEM
- Daniel Hawken STEM
- Mick Beddoes Multimedia Unit @ College of Law
- Richard Vahrman Locomatrix
- Mick Landmann Vivid Interactive
Apologies: D Kelly – B Mill, Genevieve Smith-Nunes – D Stringer
Project Updates
Teachmeet: Booking link to be sent out by Sarah from Iris. Please send round to all key contacts so we can get even more attending this time. ( GD will send out to EBP contacts )
Smartphone Project report: This was progressing well with the students at Blatch Mill. However it was noted that there were issues related to project management. Is this something that could be taught ? There was discussion around this and it was felt that this could develop into a DEB project in its own right. ( B Mill )
Smartphone Depository: Really need to target bigger companies to gather them in. This could be raised in various communications. Also having repositories in more accessible places ? e.g like CEX
Cherokee Nation: This was progressing and links in America confirmed. Now onto next stage. ( C Newman & B Mill )
PhoneBrain/ Programming in Schools: PhD/ Masters students working on the design of a learning environment. Issue of project management skills raised again. Could DEB come up with a skeletal framework ?
DEB Monthly competition: Discussion centred around the ways to organise and promote the competitions. RV to come up with the concept.
RV Walk: Discussion centred around coming up with a project that details how Brighton & Hove Schools could link with the 12 different stopping stages of the walk. Ideas to Richard please.
New Projects
Ideas for new projects to come from schools. The EBP will be doing a newsletter in the Spring and an article on the DEB would be included. This will be circulated to all school DEB contacts and other school contacts.
LWF Conference: Mick Landmann attended this and discussed some of the key points and new initiatives. e.g Mozilla Foundation and the Civic project/ Webmaker – encouraging more people to create a web page.
DEB structure: There was discussion centred around the opportunities presented by NESTA funding. If DEB were to bid for funds to develop new projects the organisation would need to adopt a more formalised set up with terms of reference etc. People willing to contribute to this to liaise with Mick directly.
Presentation – Bronagh Liddicoat and STEM
BL introduced the group to the role of STEM and how it helped local young people make more informed decisions about STEM careers ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). They work with primary and secondary schools and every school in Sussex is visited annually in relation to their offer. They have a STEM ambassadors programme and they have in excess of 1100 volunteers who get a free CRB check and insurance. They also receive a fortnightly email detailing the opportunities to get involved with schools.
There is a STEM Festival planned for the Mid Sussex area on July 5th at the Hawth, Crawley. There was discussion re DEB getting involved.
AOB
- Richard Freeman from DV8 talked about the new level 3 digital/creative media apprenticeship they are developing. Anyone with any business contacts who might be interested in working with them should contact him directly.
- City Camp is taking place March 2nd/3rd/4th and provides an opportunities for cross business networking regarding city wide projects.
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