[IAEP] Presenting Sugar to Rosie's Girls Camp, recommendations for cheap, fast flash drives

[Dave Bauer]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Nicco Eneidi<nbotticelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at doing a presentation on Sugar Friday August 7th at a local
> Rosie's Girls camp happening at our high school in Bennington, VT. Today I
> was asked to do an impromptu workshop with these girls on how to make a
> slide show using photos that they've taken over the last few weeks and I was
> thinking that this would be the perfect opportunity to show them SoaS.
>
> Rosie's Girls is a take on Rosie the Riveter from World War 2 when women had
> to take on non traditional roles in society especially in building ships and
> planes in the factories for the military at the time. This camp is based
> around introducing middle school aged girls to non traditional career paths
> that they may get interested in and go into in the future. So far they have
> done things like learning how to do basic car/engine maintenance, basic
> carpentry skills with electric saws/tools etc, and learning how to weld.
> They are also doing a lot of outdoor activities invovling sustainable/green
> energy and building solar heaters etc.
>
> After working with them today and seeing how technically these girls are I
> think presenting Sugar to them and using Turtle Art would be a wonderful way
> of introducing them to basic programming among other things. I may be able
> to get the district to purchase new usb drives for them too but I would need
> them to be relatively cheap and fast.
>
> For my camp last week I had purchased the ruggedized 2GB Patriot drives from
> newegg for about 15$/each but those are a bit overkill and expensive for
> this. I'm also afraid to buy another drive not knowing if it will actually
> work or not.
>
> Does anyone have any specific recommendations on drives that they absolutely
> know will work and are under 10$/each?
>

Sandisk Cruzer 2GB around $8-9.
These are VERY reliable and pretty fast for the price.
Dave

> Thank You!
> -Nicco
>
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