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Tincan uses information technology and interactive media for education and community development.

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From the Director:

Tincan is pleased to announce that Joseph Comine has joined our staff as Director of Interactive Media. Joe is a filmmaker and co-founder of 11th Hour Films, a video production company. He is a member of Sustain Spokane, the local chapter of Bioneers (www.bioneers.org) and creates and runs their local film festival. Joe's work has been exhibited in numerous film festivals including the Spokane International Film Festival & the Walla Walla Sweet Onion Film Festival. Joe has been working with Hannah Whitmore, Tincan’s Media Integration Coordinator, and will assume Hannah’s role when she leaves at the end of June to pursue new opportunities.

A new way to donate: Tincan has signed up as a member of eScrip, a way for groups to raise funds through everyday purchases made at eScrip merchants. eScrip and hundreds of merchant partners, including Macys, Nordstroms, many grocery stores, eBay, and others, have created a system that rewards customer loyalty by contributing a percentage of purchases to our group. You shop the way you like to shop for groceries, clothing, travel and entertainment. The merchant gives us a small percentage of your purchase. The money isn’t added to your bill, it’s taken from the merchant partner as their donation. Participating is simple and convenient; all you need to do is register the debit/credit card(s) (or in some cases your customer card) you typically use for purchases.

• Log on to http://www.escrip.com and go to "sign up".
• Designate our group to receive contributions. Our Group ID is #500018120
• Register your debit, ATM and credit cards

That’s it! When you visit eScrip merchants to shop, we will automatically get their donation. The percentage donated is small, but the more people that sign up, the better we will do. Every bit of funding goes to help support our programs.

Of course, we always welcome your regular donations

Karen L. Michaelson, Ph.D.
Executive Director

WIBIT Showcase

Swamp Water Soda – a soda that will make you cool – and a murder mystery that includes suspects from the cast of American Idol are among the creative projects that the girls from Centennial and East Valley Middle schools’ WIBIT program have created this year. You are invited to our end of the year open house showcase to taste the soda's and play the games. It’s at the YMCA in the Valley, 2421 N Discovery Place on May 28th from 4:30-6pm. We hope to see you there supporting our next generation of biotech scientists and game developers! WIBIT (Women in Biotechnology and Information Technology) is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Women’s Education equity Act Program.

Spotlight on Hana Brothers

Hana Brothers has been an active participant in Tincan's youth programs since the summer of 2005. She was in our first game development camp. She also made her mark as one of the artists on the Price Rite building during the Garland Mural Project. Last summer she created simulations and designed her own business concept in BizMiz. Hana is currently in WIBIT at Centennial Middle School where she is designing a CSI computer game. She takes the bus over once a week from City School, which she currently attends. Hana loves to program computers using programs like Visual Basics and will read just about anything. One of her goals in life to got to Africa and work with Orangutans. Hana has been a great asset to our programs and we look forward to working with her for years to come.

Suffrage Centennial Teacher Workshop

Tincan’s Inland Northwest Memories Project will hold a year-long workshop for middle and high school history and social studies teachers to introduce teaching about the history of women’s suffrage in Washington State. On November 8, 2010, Washington State will celebrate the centennial of women’s gaining the right to vote. Washington was the first state in the twentieth century and the fifth state in the Union to enact women’s suffrage preceding the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution by ten years. There are six seminars that make up the workshop; each workshop will be lead by a humanities scholar, have opportunity for questions, site visits, and primary resource research and curriculum development. Participating teachers will receive a stipend and clock hours.

• Seminar 1: Washington’s Path to Women’s Suffrage in the National Context: August 26-27, 2008
• Seminar 2: The Cultural Context of Women’s Lives in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries: October 4, 2008
• Seminar 3: The Politics of Suffrage in Eastern Washington: December 6, 2008
• Seminar 4: Regional Economic Forces Promoting and Hindering Women’s Right to Vote: February 7, 2009
• Seminar 5: Women’s Clubs and the Temperance Movement: Organizing for Suffrage: April 25, 2009
• Seminar 6: Women’s Suffrage in the Secondary Curriculum: July 21-23, 2009

NEH designated the Suffrage Centennial Workshop as a “We the People” project. The goal of the “We the People” initiative is the encourage and strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture through the support of projects that explore significant events and themes in our nation’s history and advance the knowledge of the principles that define America.

For more information contact Elisha Durrant, 509-744-0972 or elisha@tincan.org.

Tincan Teen Summer Camps

Tincan has a full schedule of summer camps this year from making video games to local history. Many of the camps are underwritten by our funders, and scholarships may be available for others.

• Developing Science Simulation Video Games (July 7-11)
• Exploring History's Voice (July 21-25)
• Eco-Mapping (July 21-25)
• Animal Rescue Camp (July 28-August 1)
• Developing Science Video Games (August 4-15)
• Garland District Art Project (August 11-15)
• Summer Video Journalism Institute (June 23-July 18)

For more information about the camps and to register go to www.tincan.org, or contact Tara tara@tincan.org, or 744-0972.