Good Things Come to Those Who Code Campaign Wrapup

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1. Awesome, Fred. Proud to have been a small part.

   1. PS: Best way to be first commenter on an AVC post is to be vacationing in Italy. 🙂

      1. Bravissimo. Dove sei?

         1. First Sorrento, then Roma and now leaving for a last few days with family in Asti (about an hour west of Milan).

            1. Enjoy! If you’re passing by Naples, make sure you get a real pizza napoletana. My favorites were Da Michele, Trianon and Starita a materdei in capodimonte.

            2. Passed through on the way to and from Sorrento, but sadly, never left the termini. We decided to focus on a few spots and not see everything, so Sorrento, Roma and Asti have largely been it.We’ll be back. 🙂

            3. now your rubbing it in 😉

            4. It is really a beautiful country. We’re doing this whole thing on points and miles. You should! 🙂

            5. wife and I went for tenth anniversary … was a wonderful trip .. went to Venice, Florence and volterra … we really want to go back and check out southern Italy :)speaking about travel … we just got back from an amazing adventure in Belize.

            6. Ooh, I’ve heard good things about Belize.

            7. Thanks for taking the time to respond. arriva derci!

            8. now you make me feel guilty for emailing you today 🙂

            9. All good. 🙂

      2. are visas required to visit North Korea?

         1. Most definitely. They tightly control entry, from what I understand.And they are even tighter on controlling exits…most states that lack freedom and respect for human rights are.

   2. If you end up for a night in Milan I have a restaurant that does a baked fish in Sea Salt and a really know-it-all artisanal wine bar that might be worth a visit.

      1. Send it my way…you never know. But I suspect our family here in Italia will be proud to show us all of their favorite places, so I doubt we will have much input. 😉

2. That is impressive!

3. Nice! I’m just trying to picture what 8,551 people looks like, and that’s a lot of people. High five 🙂

   1. think of a small NBA arena

      1. right! that’s really cool.

      2. Just don’t think of JR’s or Melo’s shooting percentage last night.

         1. i am having nightmares about those two right now

   2. the main floor of macy’s herald square filled with people – or maybe a section of a parade route in nyc

      1. :-)I searched briefly, in vain, for a photo that showed about 8500 people.

         1. Here you go… Hearst Greek Theatre, an 8,500-seat amphitheater owned and operated by the University of California, Berkeley.

            1. Awesome 🙂

4. Well done. DC does a very good job communicating with donors about where their contributions are going.

5. thank u for leading this.

6. Hey that list of campaigns goes to our personal giving pages.Congrats on fighting the good fight.

   1. It should be http://www.donorschoose.org…As I said above, our site served the wrong permalink up to Fred. We’ll fix the bug to avoid it happening to others in the future.- Oliver (DonorsChoose.org)

7. Awesome, this is more than just the one time gift. These kids are young and impressionable and no doubt some will remember these gifts for years to come and likely shape, in part, who they are as a person. I still can recall moments in my life.

   1. this is true, and the reason why donors should take advantage of the note that goes along with the donation to provide some audacious advice / predictions about what the kids will be able to do in the future.

   2. It hopefully will instil the value of giving / receiving.

8. http://www.guardian.co.uk/t…

9. You should get a tattoo of 8,551 like Pitino did of the Louisville win: http://goo.gl/cTETV

   1. Had to comment…if you made $4.9M a year, wouldn’t you get a slightly cooler tattoo of the event you may experience only once?I’ve always said I’d get a company tattoo for making great accomplishments, but I would actually utilize design

      1. It is a lame tattoo for sure, though pretty bad ass of the “little magician” to get it.

   2. i am too old to get inked

10. Good to see people helping people. Too bad it’s students in classrooms instead of students on the internet..Thought I should post this: http://www.epi.org/publicat…

    1. too bad you like to make asinine comments

       1. That’s not very nice. It’s a relevent and forward looking comment. The internet is the revolution in knowledge delivery. Investing money in education that is only brick-n-mortor is backward thinking.

          1. Not true http://www.avc.com/a_vc/201…

             1. I watched the video and it backs up what I’m saying. Making your “not true” conclusion false..So unless I’ve missed something in these posts. I still contend that investing in “only brick-n-mortor” is backward thinking. I have to say that what you described on the video is what I see as forward thinking education. And that is putting effort into a mix..So, for the $60K I say 2/3 should go to creating electronic content. And 1/3 should go to the classroom efforts. Now, before we go any further I can’t comment on whether 1/3 will pay the classroom costs. I’m just giving my opinion on how I think funds should be allocated. Taking into consideration the availability of internet delivery and how I envision education for the future..Another thing we may have to consider here is what we each are seeing as investing in “only brick-n-mortor”. I think *all* investing in education should require a mix. This is to keep us from looking back in 10 years only to find that there was no mix *actually* happening..So, after reviewing your supporting video. I’m not sure why you concluded my comment was asinine. Maybe I didn’t make myself clear. While even though I think the above paragraphs clear things up. I’ll summarize because years of teaching makes it a habit for me..I think that due to electronic content delivery, internet mostly but including intranets or whatever, we need to move away from brick-n-motor thinking. Not just to get away from huge hard asset, buildings and grounds, costs. But, also to focus on the content and learning changes due to the huge frontier of electronic content delivery..Last I’m all for making it so that some people won’t *need* to step into a brick-n-mortor classroom to get an MBA or whatever. But, I also know that there will always be some who *must* step into a brick-n-mortor classroom to get an education.

             2. That’s fine if you want 1-10% of the people in this world, the self directed learners, to be the only educated people in the world. But if you want to educate everyone you need teachers and facilities

             3. We can’t “educate” everyone using an educational system. Many get their education on the streets. That’s not a bad thing. Some make it big that way..I know that for mentally and physically challenged people there will always be a need for physical classrooms. Also, testing will require physical locations. Not because technology can’t play a part but because physical location testing will be preferred in many instances..As far as self-directed learners goes. I think in the knowledge worker age that we’re in they are the cream of the crop. During the industrial age worker tasks were well defined with step-by-step instructions created off-line. Now, being able to learn during the task is a must! So, the self-directed learner is king..Lastly, is a new topic which we don’t need to discuss but I would like to mention. There is a problem with current schooling that seems to dull the student’s ability to learn. If you give a kid a video game they can learn even the most complex of games while alone staring at the computer screen. But, then after years of schooling I see many of them lose the ability to self direct their learning. I don’ t teach anymore but still know and discuss these topics with teachers.

             4. BTW, thanks for the discussion. Many times when dicussing this topic teachers get so frightened they will lose their job because of cyber schooling efforts. But really the ones who will lose their jobs will be the ones who fight the electronic knowledge delivery revolution. Not because we won’t need them but because they will spend their time fighting instead of moving forward. So, they will make themselves obsolete.

11. High fives all around.

12. “Here’s a list of all the DonorsChoose campaigns I have done on this blog over the years.”(That link is actually going to a “sign in” page.)

    1. It should be http://www.donorschoose.org…It’s our fault, our site served the wrong permalink up to Fred. We’ll fix the bug to avoid it happening to others in the future.- Oliver (DonorsChoose.org)

    2. It should be http://www.donorschoose.org…It’s our fault, our site served the wrong permalink up to Fred. We’ll fix the bug to avoid it happening to others in the future.- Oliver (DonorsChoose.org)

13. I thought I donated to the campaign, though thinking I may supported a different campaign thinking they were connected. I sent DonorsChoose a support request to find out.. still haven’t heard back yet though.

    1. Matt, someone from our Customer Relations team will follow up with you directly. We can link your donation to the page retroactively if there was a mix-up. Thanks for helping shine a light on CS education!

       1. Heard from them. Thanks. 🙂

14. Fred, many thanks to you (and the awesome A VC community) for all the support you continue to provide for students and teachers. We’re thrilled the A VC community could show educators Good Things Come to Those Who Code!