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SFPC:The First Class

Taeyoon Choi
January 11, 2014
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SFPC:The First Class

presentation for the final day of SFPC

Taeyoon Choi

January 11, 2014
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  1. SFPC:The First Class at
    Eyebeam Art and Technology Center.
    November 22nd, 2013
    Presented by Taeyoon Choi, Co-founder of SFPC

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  2. SFPC: The First Class
    This presentation is dedicated to the First Class of SFPC

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  3. I’d like to invite you to a day in SFPC in
    33 Flatbush, Downtown Brooklyn.

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  4. We had four main teachers
    who are also co-founders of SFPC.

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  5. Zach

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  6. Jen

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  7. Amit

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  8. Taeyoon

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  9. Out of 60+ amazing applicants, we accepted 15 students
    from around the world as the first class.

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  10. Most classes were planned weekly, but schedule was variable upon
    needs of the students and availability of teachers.
    Myself and Zach were in school 4+ days/ week to help students and
    also take care of administration. Casey also helped with admin.

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  11. There were classes on coding and hacking.
    * Zach explaining how pixels work in a morning class

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  12. There is poetics in the nature of computation:
    the place where logic meets electricity,
    and math meets language, which we find beautiful.
    * Learning logic gates with low level electronics in Taeyoon’s class

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  13. Zach taught Input and Output and many other classes.
    Amit taught Learning Curve.
    Jen taught Math for Artists and Art for Mathists and organized
    Open Dinners.
    Taeyoon taught Drawings and circuits, and organized Art of
    walking.

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  14. We planned classes for experimenting
    with teaching and learning.

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  15. Jen’s Open Dinner was communal cooking and sharing
    food and thoughts with special guests.

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  16. Taeyoon’s Art of Walking was walking and reading

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  17. What mattered was sharing time to make situations,

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  18. writing code and reading essays.

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  19. After few weeks, we started to call homework as ‘Propositions’.

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  20. Most importantly, student lead workshops ruled.

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  21. A lot of time just talking

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  22. Debugging together

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  23. Explaining how pixels work
    Explaining how pixels work
    being attentive and present

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  24. and selflessly helping one another

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  25. Everyday we met
    our rockstars
    *30+ visiting artists

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  26. Bret Victor

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  27. Ramsey Nasser

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  28. Brian House

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  29. Adam Magyar

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  30. Takahiro Yamaguchi

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  31. Paola Antonelli

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  32. Jacob Tonski

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  33. Caitlin Morris

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  34. April 17th, 2013
    Christine Sun Kim

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  35. Dan Phiffer

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  36. Kyle McDonald

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  37. Syd Lieberman

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  38. Golan Levin

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  39. Zach Gage

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  40. Brian Droitcour

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  41. Jürg Lehni

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  42. And so many more
    *full list on http:/
    /sfpc.io/thefirstclass

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  43. and, everyday we found
    our new rockstars

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  44. Through small
    victories
    * Meet the students from SFPC:The First Class

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  45. Simona de Rosa

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  46. Jonathan Dahan

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  47. Ishac Bertran

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  48. Andy Clymer

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  49. Jon Wohl

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  50. Jason Levine

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  51. Moises Sanabria

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  52. Claire Lin

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  53. Jesse Wolpert

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  54. Le Wei

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  55. Tega Brain

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  56. Mini Kim

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  57. Motoi Shimizu

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  58. Rachel Uwa

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  59. Paul Chang

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  60. Casey Gollan
    *admin superpower

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  61. Yoobi
    *special guest

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  62. Just a few special moments to remember

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  63. Everything is amazing during

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  64. The Golden Hour

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  65. Open dinners

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  66. hosted by amazing chef Jen

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