= Python in Education (& vice versa) =

== Meeting ==

Saturday - When and where are we meeting for dinner? 6:30 ballroom- Ordering Pizza.


Meet Friday 8PM:  open space rooms are filling up so Andy put us down for Kai Tak Int'l 8-11 PM

Please add any possible discussion topics and any possible conficts below.

 * Dinner plans for Saturday
 * Python in middle and high school
 * The Rise of the Robots - RUR-ple, Guido van Robot, and (very recently) Monty Karel
 * Do we need (or even want) a version of Scratch implemented in Python?
 * Python in CS1 or CS0.5 or CS0

== Dinner ==

One topic of the meeting Friday might be options for a dinner on Saturday.

Dinner options:

 * Local to the conference hotel
 * Greektown (take the CTA blue line that goes by the hotel, walk a couple of blocks from the west edge of downtown)
 * River North (blue line to clark/lake then a couple blocks north) 
 * If anyone is interested, I can host a visit/tour and/or meeting at the Google Office on Saturday before or after the dinner. - Jessie

== Persons Interested ==

Feel free to list your interest in attending either of the above below:

 * VernCeder (both)
 * Charles Severance (both might work - but something during the day might be nice as well)
 * Dean Goodmanson. In for dinner on Saturday.  I'll be at the Board Games social in on of the open spaces area on Friday and Saturday night.  I can provide some light games if folks would like to continue chats in that environment.
 * Kirby Urner, checked in (rm 730), see you at Kai Tak, interested in Saturday dinner plan (kirby.urner@gmail.com)
 * AndyHarrington, planning on both.  Hearing about Google's involvement in education sounds good, too.
 * Jessie Chavez, new to python but former teacher and currently at Google in Chicago.
 * Johannes Woolard, Crunchy co-developer. Potentially interested in both.

== Other Suggestions, Ideas, Comments ==

Please put any other ideas you have below.


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