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Saturday, September 13, 2008

From the Inbox: CAD w/ Blender lessons

I hope that some of you will be able to take advantage of the wide range of opportunities available to homeschoolers.

HAWTHORNE CENTER FOR INNOVATION
BLOOMINGTON(NORTH OF RIVERSIDE)
18211 Hawthorne Ave.,
Bloomington, CA 92316
phone: 909-350-0311
www.hawcenter.org (under construction)

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/News-HC


The Hawthorne Center for Innovation is an innovation incubator - incubating innovative learning, R&D, and entrepreneurship.


Innovative Learning

Learn Computer Aided Design (CAD) w/ Blender
Fridays - starting Sept 19. 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm. FREE. On-going sessions. Limited seating. Teens and up.

Blender is a free 3D authority tool suite adaptable for doing engineering/drafting. The sessions will be taking "real-world" architectural blue-prints and rendering them as 3D models and will be building libraires for a Blender-based architectural repository.
www.blender.org

About the sessions. The sessions represent a pilot project to learn how to build architectural libraries in Blender and how to teach people with no previous exposure to Blender. The sessions will be on-going and loosely structured.

About the presentor. Ben Cooper holds the title of Senior Research Scientist-in-Residence, Hawthorne Center for Innovation and has been affiliated with the Center for 6 years.
Ben is:
- Co-Founder, with Senior Research Scientist-in-Absentia, Hawthorne Center for Innovation, Merik Voswinkel (residing in The Netherlands), of the the super computing hardware model Morphel
- Co-Founder of an international team to create the open source web-writing tool set Morphle that will provide end-users of the web with the capacity to produce web pages that will compare favorably to professsionaly-produced web content without them having to know HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc.
- Co-Founder and CTO of CMC Technologies (CMC) of Newport Beach, California
- Founder and CTO of Keystone Turbine Technologies of Pomona, California.



Seating is very limited. For more information / to sign up - please contact Donna Schrokosch at donna@hawcenter.org or leave a message at 909-350-0311.



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