Eye4You Alliance island blog

Jacqueline Woodson Author Chat

On Friday, July 18, award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson came to the Eye4You Alliance sim to talk to teens about her work and the writing process. She also shared information about some of her books, such as Miracle’s Boys. She mentioned that she has known she wanted to write since she was seven years old, that she wrote her first book in college, and that she has now published 29 books. To learn more about Jacqueline Woodson, visit her website.

Author Avatar Design Contest a Winner!

On July 12, we held a Author Avatar Design Contest in which teens designed avatars for our upcoming Summer Author Chat series.  The contest had two divisions - Best Avatar for author Jack Gantos and Best Avatar for author Meg Cabot.  Teens designed the complete avatars to include the shape, skin, hair, clothes, and even animations.  Prize money for each division was L$7,500.   Attending teens voted for their favorite entries.  In a hotly contested competition for Gantos, Bulloney Broome emerged victorious.  For the Cabot competition, congratulations go to Tarkin Garzo.  A big thanks to all of the teens who participated!

[news] Eye4You in SmallWorlds

Last month, SmallWorlds launched itself to the public. It runs in a browser and only requires the latest Adobe Flash Player. Storm Basiat set up an Eye4You Alliance room-check it out (gift some furniture if you feel so inclined!). You complete missions to be able to earn money to purchase things for the room. Missions involve tasks that allow the user to become more familiar with the world. We can integrate a lot of the tools we are already using such as Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and more. Visit Eye4You and friend us in SmallWorlds! (I’m Saryn Jenkins btw).

[events] the Tech Museum’s UCanTu Exhibition

This month the Tech Museum is kicking off their second inworld exhibition in Second Life and Teen Second Life on Eye4You Alliance island.

The contest runs until the end of July. the Tech representatives, En Bergbahn and Copernic Heliosense will be on Eye4You, Wednesdays and Fridays, 2-3pm slt to give feedback and help with project participation.

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Craft Fair 2008 winners

Special thanks to Dreyfus Dryke, Nicholas, Zoaan, HVX, Arc, Clowey, Majenna, Storm and Saryn for making this years craft fair enjoyable and making a great effort to it. Also thanks to all teens who took part this year!. The craft fair this year was hosted on Saturday 12th of July 2008 from 7am SLT - 2pm SLT and I think we had a great turn out to this years 2nd Craft Fair on Eye4you Alliance Island.

Check out the 2nd Craft Fair Machinima made by HVX Voyager: Click Here

We will look forward to next year (2009) for our 3rd Eye4you Craft Fair. Let us know what you think of last, this years craft fair, if you have any suggestions or ideas for next year, please let us know!.

Craft Fair 2008 Prize Winners

L$ cash prizes were awarded in these categories:

* Best of Show - L$500
Aran Trefoil — Camping with Aran

* Most popular entry - L$250
Aran Trefoil — Camping with Aran

* Most colorful entry - L$250
Draken Drut’s - Tena red spinning thing

* Apparel - L$100
Ichigo Gegaku — Goblin Avatar  — 1st prize

* Transportation - L$100 (two-way tie, each receives L$100)
Sith Thunders — Assault-Mech Mark II — 1st prize (stationary transportation)
Bubby Boucher — StarForceTwo  — 1st prize (mobile transportation)

* Physics/Chemistry - L$100
Conall Wolfzahn and  Septimus Nightfire  — RC  Robot  — 1st prize

* Decorative Items - L$100
MForm Clary—Food table —1st prize

* Flora and fauna - L$100
Aran Trefoil — Camping with Aran — 1st Prize

* Large structures - L$100 (three-way tie, each receives L$100)
Jmt79 Alter — Shop– 1st Prize
Calade Lamington — Japanese House — 1st Prize
Jeroen Waisman and DragonLancer1993 Slade — Space Station — 1st Prize

* Minutiae - L$100
Aran Trefoil — Miniz City — 1st Prize

* Textures and Tools - L$100 (each wins L$100)
Taijin Rikugun — 1st Prize (textures)
Conall Wolfzahn — Multipurpose Tool Jutsu Backpack — 1st Prize (tools)

* Lights & lighting - L$100
Wendell Jenangir — Glados eye — 1st Prize

* Machinima - L$100
no entry

* Music & sound - L$100
Lord Ravikumar — One small step…Moon  and Fountain — First Prize
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If you have questions, suggestions or comments,
please send an IM to Dreyfus Dryke

Post created by Daniel Voyager

Robot Building Contest A Fabulous Success!

Hello Everyone,
This is your intrepid fellow space traveller Arc Indigo checking in to report about the robot building contest at Eye4You Alliance.  The mission, which 10 brave avies accepted, was to build a scripted or unscripted robot with personality.  The robot could sit there or do something but it had to look great doing it! 

There are many robots with personality in the real world which were highlighted in a Science Friday segment about social robots.  You can find information about that broadcast segment at http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200804254 .  NASA has robots with personality too - take a look at the picture of Robonaut….it’s a humanoid robot built to work like another EVA astronaut but with special abilities. Check it out … http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/

All of the entries in the robot building contest were great - congratulations to everyone!! I am really impressed with the quality of the work. Here are the results of the contest:

Scripted:
1st Place: RXG Bot
2nd Place: Citrus Bot
3rd Place: Aperture Bot
Honorable Mention:
NoobDe Cube Bot

Unscripted:
1st Place: Planet Searcher Bot
2nd Place: Teddies Bot
3rd Place: EVE Bot
Honorable Mention:
Helper Bot
Honorable Mention:
Light Bulb
Honorable Mention:
Crooked Bot

Popular Votes:
1st Place: Light Bulb
2nd Place: Teddies Bot
3rd Place: Tie
Aperture Bot
RXG Bot

Special Thanks to Daniel Voyager, Storm Basiat and Dreyfus Dryke for their talents and enormous help. And of course….we are most appreciative of the opportunity to work at Eye4You. Thank you Saryn. :)

Be sure and check out Daniel Voyager’s machinima to get a look at the robots:
http://eye4youalliance.youthtech.info/?p=751

AD ASTRA!!
Arc Indigo
NASA Learning Technologies

Craft Fair 2008 this coming Saturday

The Second Annual TSL Craft Fair

Saturday, July 12, 2008
7am-2pm SLT
At Eye4You Alliance Island in Teen Second Life

Wow! Something to do on a Saturday.

Open to all teens.
Free t-shirts for everyone.

Bring your best stuff to the Craft Fair and show it off !

Big things, little things, what have you made?

Things like…
Clothes. hair, shoes
Cars, planes, rockets
Liquids, gases, solids
Tools & textures
Flags, rugs, banners
Beach towels, fishes
Cats, dogs, dragons
Houses, barns, docks
Trees, flowers, butterflies
Diamonds, pearls, rubies
And anything else you have made.

Don’t hide your light under a bushel basket. Come and show it off.

Our motto is: “If you’ve made it, we want to see it.”

L$ cash prizes for best in these categories:
* Apparel
* Transportation
* Physics/Chemistry
* Decorative Items
* Flora and fauna
* Large structures
* Minutiae
* Textures & tools
* Lights & lighting
* Machinima
* Music & sound
and
* Most colorful entry
* Most popular entry
* Best of Show

–posted by Dreyfus Dryke

Wiinners last year in the Craft Fair 2007

[news] the Tech Museum of Innovation-irl

Last week when I was in CA, I visited the Tech Museum of Innovation. It was great to see their workspace for the SL and TSL exhibits from their installation which opened in June at the museum of people building in SL and having it reconstructed irl. Toward the end of the video the TG winner(s) are mentioned with Avi and Philip Linden talking. While the exhibit wasn’t created irl, it was showcased as a photo in the rl museum along with other exhibits from SL. Music, art, and film were recreated in the museum. I got to meet Copernic (tsl approved adult from the Tech) and a teen that is an intern at the museum. It was a short but great visit and I got a lot of ideas for my rl library. Look for the Tech’s next contest on Eye4You; UCanTu.

[events] Eye4You celebrates SL5B

Thanks to Henrik Svendsen for organizing the trivia contest for TSL after M Linden’s talk.  Congratulations to the winners: 1st: Jay Clostermann, 2nd: Merridew Andel, 3rd: Ruud Carpool.

Questions included:
1. What is the in-world name of the Second Life’s Resident Enlightenment Manager (The Linden account)?
A:Torley
(other answers given included Dr. Phil, Jesus, Jack Black, and Cory Linden)
2. What is the real name of Linden Lab’s CEO?
A: Mark Kingdon
(other answers given:bat man, jesus, Chuck Norris, and Dr. Phillip Linden)
3. When was Second Life released?
A: June 23, 2003
4. Which year was Linden Lab founded?
A:1999
(other answers given: 1842 by Blue Linden =])
5. How many registered accounts (active/inactive) are there on SL (MG/TG) approximately?
A: 14,190,267
6. What is the Second Life new rendering engine called?
A: WindLight
7. What is the in-world name of the Linden that started SL and was CEO until a couple of months ago?
A: Philip Linden
8. How many sims are there on the TG mainland?
A: around 83
9. What is the scripting language in Second Life called?
A: Linden scripting language
10. What is the newest version of SL’s physic’s engine?
A: Havok 4
 

[events] Incentive for the Medieval Events

New for the next three events - July 4, 5, and 6 - the Medieval Enchantment Lifestyle Incentive (MELI)Those who participate in Medieval or Medieval Fantasy outfits will get a 50L$ bonus. If you bring someone to cheer for you (not another contestant) and they are in a medieval outfit, you will get 20 Lindens for each one. There are only 16 places on the scoreboard, so be sure to get there early and JOIN before the board closes and is “seeded”. Usually 15 minutes after the event starts. Stay until the end of the event to cheer for the winners. Lindens$ will be awarded within a week, due to SL fund transfers. Therefore, dress in Medieval outfits and invite your friends and ask them to dress in Medieval outfits too.