Lunch 2.0

Head on down to SOMA and join us for a fantastic lunch 2.0 @ SF Station with food, cake, beer, and a raffle!

Tonight I learn that it is important to keep good brain health from PBS TV program on Magnificent Mind At Any Age: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life. One prescription is to learn a new language. This will improve your brain and sharpen your mind. Searching on Google is better for your brain than reading. Constantly checking your inbox email and blackberry email are NOT good for your brain, lowering your IQ.

How would this relate to our Holiday Family Hackathon?
Silicon Valley Web Builder is always open mind when it comes to learning new language, new API and new platform. Many of you developers may know Facebook (FBML, FQL, FJS) well. Now you would have the chance to exercise your mind, learning another new language on Bebo (SNML, SNQL, SNJS).

These are the kind of stories that inspire me.
It all started when 10-year-old Aryan Taheri attended a California Clean Tech Open event with his dad, Sam. The older Taheri planned to enter the competition, geared to help entrepreneurs who dream of starting their own environmentally friendly company. When Taheri found out there is no age limit on entering competition, he recruited his 5th grade classmates to build the prototype and their parents for advise.

Another startup, which was literally founded by a 5th grader, just raised $16.8 million in a series B round on virtual goods. PlaySpan was founded two years ago by Arjun Mehta, then in the 5th grade, and his father Karl Mehta, who is the CEO.

Family Hackathon
Many questioned my plan in getting kids involved in hackathon. Very often, we couldn’t even get adults to hack much during hackathon. Many thought I must be insane not limiting the age for learning JavaScript, Python, and APIs. I self-taught myself how to code at this young age. I thought why I would limit the age of learning. Bill Gates wouldn’t make it so far if his parents limit him to learn by age. I discovered another important clues. Almost close to half came to our last Hackathon for kids event are girls. This is the chance to inspire young girls to explore coding, considering engineering and science. This motivate me to invest in Family Hackathon, for the future of Silicon Valley.

New Location
The new location is TEN’s Santa Clara Innovation Center with wifi support that you can comfortable to work on your project or participating our hand-on session. We are very lucky to have Engineers from Bebo, Sun and SVWB to help new and advance developers.

You will receive the latest SDK, sample applications, and codes.

Sun/Bebo is going to offer sponsored web host account to every participating guest. Kickstart your application immediately. Bebo will announce Developer Challenge Contest.

Offerpal is going to give a whitepaper for every participating guest and a raffle prize of 2,000 installs (roughly $600 in value).

Bess
Founder of Silicon Valley Web Builder

Social Network Holiday Family Hackathon
Register: http://familyhackathon08.eventbrite.com/
Admission: FREE

Lunch & Raffle Prizes: Sponsored by Offerpal
Facility: Sponsored by TEN
Media and Giveaways: Bebo/AOL

Date: 12/6/08 Sat
Time: 12:00pm-6:00pm
Location: TEN’s Santa Clara Innovation Center
Address: 2953 Bunker Hill Lane, Ste 400, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Tired of the same three lunch time options? Well grab your co-worker and come eat lunch with the cool kids at SF Station and help celebrate our 12th birthday Lunch 2.0 style!!

For those of you that don’t know SF Station, we are San Francisco Bay Area’s definitive online city guide to Arts & Culture, Entertainment, Food, Shopping, and Urban Living. We invite you to come and hang out in our office, eat some lunch, tour our website, win free stuff, and have some Friday Fun!!

Hosts: SF Station
Where: 1475 Folsom St Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94103
When: Friday, December 5th, 12noon – 2pm
RSVP ON UPCOMING!

We will have Beer available to wash down your lunch, birthday cake for dessert, raffle prizes, and of course, the Bright & Smiling faces of the SF Station Crew!!

Pizza Provided by Dino’s Pizza
Birthday cake provided by Cake Coquette
Beer provided by Phuket

Raffle prizes provided by the following:
Grand Prize: $2500 of advertising with SF Station & San Francisco.com
4 dinners to Supperclub San Francisco
2 tickets to Storytime Festival Dec 20th
2 tickets to SFMOMA
1 $50 Gift Certificate to MoMo’s

Time for lunch 2.0 on a holiday celebration. This is a last minute social gathering as a few kind supporters decide to sponsor us over Thanksgiving week. We’ll have less than a week to plan out the details. This is a social networking event with wifi and informal hand-on sessions. Perfect to make new friends, meet hackers, and learn new tricks!

Due to the rush, we’ll have to announce details once you sign up. Lot of surprises!

Don’t forget to register! This will help our sponsors to estimate food and drink.

Social Network Holiday Family Hackathon
12/6/08 Sat 12pm-6pm
Sun Microsystems Auditorium
4030 George Sellon Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Social Network Holiday Family Hackathon
Register: http://familyhackathon08.eventbrite.com/
Admission: FREE

Lunch: Offerpal
Facility: Sun Microsystems
Support: Bebo/AOL
Host: Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB)