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| Acton |
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| Vernon Wanderer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Acton
Certainly got the thumbs up from me |
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| aquila |
| I'd vote but I cbf'd registering |
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| ZeJayMan |
| those kids have my headphones. yeahhh |
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| jupiterone |
| quote: | Originally posted by aquila
I'd vote but I cbf'd registering |
login with facebook if you have one |
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| ziptnf |
| Voted and posted to my facebook. Cool idea! |
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| jupiterone |
here is a post from one of the members of the BMF from the article on createdigitalmusic.com:
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The Bob Moog Foundation is not formally affiliated with Moog Music, Inc. Moog Music is owned by my father’s former business partner, Mike Adams. The family has no financial interest in the company. The company is supportive of the Foundation, but their financial donations to the BMF over the past 4 years have totaled less that $15,000 — much of that was some much needed seed money in 2006. That funding represents about 5% of the funding that we’ve brought in during that period.
The BMF was created by Bob’s family friends and colleagues. Mike Adams is on our Board, but so are 7 other people who are not affiliated with Moog Music. His presence does not influence what instruments we will be using to execute our grants. As a matter of fact, non-profit laws address this issue head on. Mike Adams is not allowed to vote on any purchase of equipment from the BMF. So far this has not been a problem as he has donated all of the instruments that we use for MoogLab.
Moog Music does donate to the BMF, but at modest amounts. This year they donated a Moog Guitar for us to raffle, but otherwise there has been no financial donation. Last year they donated $1,000.00. At the inception of the foundation, Mike donated some important seed money, but since then the financial support has been less substantial.
Moog Lab does not only mean Moog instruments — and it is certainly not a marketing ploy. While Moog instruments will certainly be used, we will be looking for other intuitive instruments that help teach the science behind electronic music. I welcome your suggestions; I love the idea of the wave tone generators that you mention. As we develop this program, we will be forming an Educational Advisory team to assist us in making these decisions. We are in unique position to acquire theremins at a reduced price, thus stretching our dollars. An effective theremin set up in a school will last for five to ten years, if not more.
Regarding the $35,000 set out to cover Executive Director’s expense, I’m afraid you’ve got the wrong idea. Part of that is for travel and for material that we will need to develop. As the sole employee of the Bob Moog Foundation, I am responsible for doing everything. Thus, I will need to administer this grant, which will take about half my time as it’s a substantial undertaking. I make a whopping $42,000 a year — after taxes I take home $2,600 a month. And that for working close to 80 hours a week on a pretty consistent basis. Administering the grant is likely to take over half my time, so we allotted for that so that we can retain fiscal stability within the BMF while I spend my time on this grant, and not on other fundraising opportunities that I normally seek to keep the foundation alive.
You are welcome to your opinion regarding our project. I’m willing to bet that you’ve never seen how a child lights up when they first play a theremin and watch the waveforms they are making, nor how engaged they are. Nor have you talked to delighted teachers after we have been in their class rooms. If you cared to examine our budget in a positive light, you would see that we will be hiring an educational director for this project. If you’d like to apply once we get the grant, please email us at [email protected]. Your competition will be stiff, as we’ve had many people enthusiastically interested in helping us with this project.
Regarding the ethnic composition of the kids we are serving, right now that population is about 50% caucasian 40% African American 5% Oriental and 5% eastern european. We aim to serve minorities and underserved populations.Your attempt to paint us as a corporate- funded, marketing tool, uninformed, elitist, self-serving organization is misguided, uninformed and gratuitously negative. As one person recently put it, Bob effected millions of people, but never had millions of dollars (or anything close to it). We are a minimally funded, one employee organization with a core of amazing volunteers. We started with no money, and for four years have existed on a budget that is in the five figures. I worked out of my basement for three years and out of sheer determination and sacrifice have grown the organization despite severe economic challenges.
The Pepsi Refresh grant would put us at the forefront of science education — which is where we intend to be, igniting creativity at the intersection of music, science and innovation. We have thousands of people supporting us and we look forward to the journey.
Thanks,
Michelle
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i truly hope this hits 1st or 2nd place. if students got interested on a large scale with electronic instruments then i believe they would ultimately get much more excited about the science and engineering that goes into making this equipment (which may very well raise their interest in pursuing a career in sciences and engineering). there are many brilliant and creative minds out there. all that creativity isn't really protected and nurtured by our educational system, in many cases it gets squandered. in return, they slowly lose their interest in being creative and innovative. so why not help shape these minds from a young age and make sure that creativity isn't completely ripped away?
also. vote daily!!! |
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| Mad for Brad |
| don't see how kids are going to learn science without first learning the basics of electronics which is definitely above their scope of understanding. This will jsut be one of those classes where you around and probably break everything in a matter of months. |
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| jupiterone |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mad for Brad
don't see how kids are going to learn science without first learning the basics of electronics which is definitely above their scope of understanding. This will jsut be one of those classes where you around and probably break everything in a matter of months. |
the fact that their interests may rise because of their enjoyment of having this available to them is a step in the right direction already.
they don't really need to understand it yet, but it's not like most people that go to science class understand the mysteries of the universe right out of high school. it sparks their interests and may or may not grow from there. it's a building tool that is designed to nurture peoples creativity and interests in the fields of science. there is nothing negative or hurtful about that |
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| Mad for Brad |
| give kids a balloon with some helium and they can talk like chipmunks and sub it on their hair and make it stick to stuff. I think there are enough cheap things that are way omore interesting science wise that a synth. This is just stupid. |
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