Aquanfest June 13-14, plus Take Flight for Kids August 8

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Hi Everybody!

Just a head's up about 2 upcoming awesome events that will probably be of

interest....

1) June 13 & 14 - Aquanfest/Greenfest City, California. 

This is the Bay Area's only 2009 'paddlefest' human-powered watercraft demo

days, and fundraiser for many causes.  We expect thousands of people to join us

to try out kayaks/surfboards/canoes/dragon boats/scuba gear/you name it.  We're

also featuring amazing live entertainment (including a fabulous rock and roll

band made up of kids with disabilities), and all kinds of awesome stuff to see

and do.  We are also hosting 2 kayak fundraisers, one for general health-related

causes, another for environmental causes.  We expect dozens of nonprofit

organizations to host (free) info booths and educate the thousands of people who

join us.

Of special interest to lots of people on my email list, we are running tons of

kid-friendly activities thru the day, and all of the activities will be fully

accessible to young people with disabilities.  I'm one of the handful of

'adaptive kayaking instructors' on the West Coast, so we'll be working with

teams of instructors to show people (of all ages) with all abilities &

disabilities how to kayak. 

Absolutely free admission to everything, only $10/person or $25/family to demo

every boat in the park. 

http://www.aquanfest.com

Hope you can join us.  It'll be a BLAST!

2)  Saturday August 8, 2009 - Take Flight for Kids, San Reid Hillview

Airport.  This our 8th such event will be BY FAR our biggest in the series of

Northern California flying events for young people with special needs, at-risk

youth, etc.  We expect up to 75 pilots to take 1000 young people flying for 20

minute flights over Silicon Valley.  Most of the young people get to control the

plane for a while, to let them experience the joy of being in full control of a

complex piece of flying machinery.  We host a massive simultaneous ground

festival featuring a couple hundred science/technology/engineering/math

nonprofits showing kids (and parents) vocational and educational opportunities

that might not have otherwise occurred to them.  If you work with young people

of any ability, or if you are in the science field, we welcome you to host a

(free) booth and strut your stuff to the thousands of people we expect.

http://www.takeflightforkids.com

So that'll do it for now.  We have lots of other fun stuff going on, but more on

that later. 

Have a great May!  Hope to see you soon!

Cheers

Dean McCully

Cisco, Aquanfest, Take Flight for Kids, Day in the Sky, etc

Love, Gabby. :0)

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