Can my 18-yr old son volunteer at the makerspace two days a week?

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Hi all

We’ve just emigrated from Cape Town, South Africa, and my 18-yr old son has a 5-month gap while waiting to start university. He’s good with coding, computers and tech in general, is a wiz at Maths/Physics/Chemistry, and learns quickly.

If he joins the makerspace, will he be able to help out at the Makerspace in a useful way? He’d like to spend two days a week doing some volunteering.

Thanks
Mike

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Hi Mike!

Yes, as long as he is 18, that would be great - we have an opening on the @systems team and will be working on some interesting projects with web / database / embedded tool control nodes / wireless networking etc.

Sounds good?
Cheers,
Andy

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Hi Mike,

Welcome to you and your son. Yeah, if he’d like to help out that would be great. We have a great community and an amazing breadth of technical knowledge: we have members doing everything from building creative cardboard sculptures to programming iPhone apps to putting satellites in space. There’s bound to be a few interesting conversations he could have.

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Does he happen to have any woodwork experience?

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Hi Max, unfortunately not, his focus has been on code, robotics and related things

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Hi Andy, that does sound good, he’s keen … we’ll be attending the open day session tomorrow :slight_smile:

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Thanks Herne!

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Hi @elasticninja. Did you guys make it to the open evening?

Cheers,
Andy

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Hi Andy

We did, but he has got himself an internship that will take up most of his spare time, so he has unfortunately decided not to join the Makerspace :frowning:

Regards
Mike

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No worries, cheers!