🤔💡🚀 Zachary Baiel

Presented to a group of citizens about the history and purpose of Sunshine Week, along with demystifying public records in the State of Indiana. A 30-minute Q&A followed.

The original presentation was given at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tippecanoe County in West Lafayette, IN before ~20 citizens during the UU's Sunday Forum series.

April 2014, 2013

Work with Purdue's Civic Engagement and Leadership Development, City officials, and neighbors in New Chauncey to coordinate students and other willing participants picking up litter and debris around our neighborhood.

Design the pickup/location maps that were handed out to students.

I presented at the inaugural TEDxLafayette with my talk, Everything We Do and Don't Do is Political, challenging people to increase their political life beyond the ballot box.

Watch the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=171flckdKic
Summary of the TEDx experience: http://zacharybaiel.com/blog/2014/12/01/tedxlafayette-everything-we-do-and-dont-do-is-political/

Organize the leadership team, invite City leaders, finalize the agenda, follow-up with neighbors, and make sure the runs smoothly.

The Lafayette-West Lafayette Visitors Center asked me to give a social media workshop at their office for local businesses and business owners. This presentation was a modified version of the Leveraging the Internet: Social Media presentation and included Instagram instead of Vine.

We focused on the benefits and uses of Twitter and Tweetdeck, how to take great photos and share them with Instagram, and an overview of the powerful features inside YouTube's online tools.

The NCNA has an annual Labor Day Picnic for the entire neighborhood at Lincoln Park in the North East side. This annual event is supported in part by the dues paid to the neighborhood association. Over 80+ neighbors were in attendance. Families, children, young, old, politicians, and old friends.

My responsibilities were to help organize the event, plan and purchase the food, grill, and clean-up.

A big thank-you to everyone who came and everyone who helped.

Leveraging the Internet was a series of 3 workshops held at the West Lafayette Public Library and coordinated with Tippecanoe Arts Federation and Indiana Non-Profit Resource Network.

The Social Media Workshop helped participants understand the benefits of using YouTube, Twitter, Soundcloud, and Vine to help communicate with donors, volunteers, and other parties interested in themselves or their organization.

The Google Drive Workshop helped participants familiarize themselves with… Show more

Leveraging the Internet was a series of 3 workshops held at the West Lafayette Public Library and coordinated with Tippecanoe Arts Federation and Indiana Non-Profit Resource Network.

The Social Media Workshop helped participants understand the benefits of using YouTube, Twitter, Soundcloud, and Vine to help communicate with donors, volunteers, and other parties interested in themselves or their organization.

The Google Drive Workshop helped participants familiarize themselves with Google’s Cloud-based file sharing solution. An added benefit of using Google Drive lies in the ability to edit Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations in real-time with other users in a friendly, collaborative space. Participants learned how to create forms to gather information from donors, volunteers, and other parties interested in themselves or their organization.

The Freeflow Workshop allowed participants to use the knowledge they have gained from the two previous workshops. Participants pushed their projects forward by working with myself and others to leverage Internet tools. We will also discussed Crowdsourcing and FLOSS solutions that can be used in their organization or as an individual. Show less

Presented to the public at the Tippecanoe County Public Library about crowdsourcing, in particular crowdfunding, and how to approach donating and the funding of your own projects.

The original presentation was given at the Downtown branch of the Tippecanoe County Public Library on April 14th, 2014 for their annual Library Week of events.

Presented to a group of high school creative writing students about theatre, why it is important, and my methodology for creating theatrical works.

The original presentation was given in Monticello, IN before over 100 students, faculty, and advisers on April 24th, 2014.

Worked with the West Lafayette Public Library to organize a local, community driven, civic hacking event focused on creating applications using the Indiana General Assemblies new API, MyIGA.

Held an open class at the West Lafayette Public Library that provided a hands on introduction to the world of GNU/Linux. We walked participants through the installation procedure of Lubuntu, how to search for and install software from the package manager, and general configuration and navigation of the system.

We also worked with the Purdue Linux Users Group.

Lead a discussion (lecture plus Q&A) with 40+ area parents regarding the history, context, pitfalls, and awesomeness of social media.

The inaugural 10-Minute Play Festival was launched with 6 plays written and directed by local playwrights and directors. Over 20 local players participated on and off stage in various capacities.

I also wrote and directed one of the plays, Feed Me!

*Purdue Exponent Review
http://www.purdueexponent.org/features/article_2ccd4671-45c8-57fd-ba5f-14b2c3910bd0.html

*WBAA Interview with Hannah Lazarz (Sam from Feed Me!) and Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos… Show more

The inaugural 10-Minute Play Festival was launched with 6 plays written and directed by local playwrights and directors. Over 20 local players participated on and off stage in various capacities.

I also wrote and directed one of the plays, Feed Me!

*Purdue Exponent Review
http://www.purdueexponent.org/features/article_2ccd4671-45c8-57fd-ba5f-14b2c3910bd0.html

*WBAA Interview with Hannah Lazarz (Sam from Feed Me!) and Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos (playwright/director)
http://wbaa.org/post/civic-theatres-10-minute-play-festival

The festival was listed by the Tippecanoe Arts Federation as helping meet their Strategic Plan Goal 1: Integrate arts and culture more fully into community and economic development:

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs110/1102142480891/archive/1116203991381.html Show less

Conducted a crash course in a variety of Google products (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sites, Google+) for area non-profit organizations.

Conducted 2-hour long sessions in Google Drive, Google+, and Google Sites to the general public.