SocialMeeting
Sunday April 17th, 2011: Rockets and Kits
Social: Sunday April 17th
Rockets + kites! That way we can play if there's no wind, lots of wind, basically anything other than a rain/snow storm. This'll be in the afternoon (time TBD) at Century High School in their field.
Suggestions for future socials
If you like the idea, please let us know!
Outdoors
- Sledding (but where? (judd hill and eastwood park are official sites in roch for sledding, stewartville has a sledding hill))
- Snowshoeing and/or cross country skiing at Quarry Hill. They also rent equipment. (Nerstrand Big Woods state park also has showshoes for rent)
- Paintball
- Mini golf
- Canoe trip (this would have to be at least a half day trip to the Root River)
- Ice cream social
- Kite flying and rocket launching (wind will allow for one or the other)
- Picnic
- Frisbee golf
- Walk
- Roadside or river litter cleanup
- Geocaching - perhaps we can borrow some devices and have several practice caches set up, or perhaps we can team up to find some more challenging targets. Probably also a multi-hour social.
- Orienteering event or practice field trip
- Snow tubing and/or skiing at Steeplechase (No good, Steeplechase is closed for 2007-2009 seasons)
- WWFM (World Wide Flash Mob), the next one is Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
- Stone House Stables trail rides (yes, horses), $30 for a ride that's 45-60 minutes
Indoors
- Goonies Comedy Club
- Bowling
- Whistle Binkies / Westfire / Beetles / Whisky Bones / other locations with adult beverages and now smoke free!
- pwned game center gaming night (did 12/08) or Area 51 Gaming
- Movies (upcoming sci fi movie releases include Watchmen, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Star Trek XI, Terminator IV, Transformers II, or whatever you have to suggest)
- Documentaries: "Revolution OS"
- Discussion of experience of being an election judge, next time we meet someplace that's not too loud
- Board and card games. Some members are fans of Robo Rally and Munchkin
- Ice skating at the Rec Center, skate rentals available
- RC helicoptor/plane flying at the Rec Center. Tuesday nights, 7-10 pm. Bring your own UFO. Free.
- Rube Goldberg device, built out of whatever we brought. Include Diet Coke and Mentos?
- Potato guns!
- Baking geeky cookies
- Take an introductory archery session at Archery Headquarters
- Museum field trip:
- Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis, Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul
- Putnam Museum & IMAX Theatre in Davenport IA for the May 23 - Sept. 8, 2009 GPS Adventure exhibit. Details on what the exhibit would be like can be found here http://www.minotaurmazes.com/mazedetail.html?maze=19
- Leonardo's Basement has adult projects at Studio Bricolage (Jan topic was build a jacob's ladder and other high voltage projects )
- Your suggestion here, please (or email Tina)
Volunteer/service opportunities of potential interest to K-LUGgers
There's a lot of important work in this world that wouldn't get done if someone didn't decide to just step forward and do it for the joy of helping out. Here's our place to share such work that may be of interest to K-LUGgers. Please remove your listing after the activity is finished, or it may be removed for you.
| Name | Brief description | Ongoing, annual, single time event | Commitment timeframe | K-LUGger contact | Website |
| Litter Bit Better | Trash cleanup | Annual | 1-3 hours during Earth Week, mid-April | Tina Wood-Wentz | LBB in general, 2011 event organized by Tina |
| Entertainment Software Association grant for technology | Partnering with a library in Hobson City MO to bring more computers to their town | Single | unknown | Mark Diez (PCIG) | ESA Grant application |
| Your name here | x | x | x | x | x |