The Friends are a separate nonprofit from the library, usually run by volunteers. They can also accept donations from the public, keeping books out of dumpsters. They organize regular book sales which are generally popular with the reading public.
https://action.everylibrary.org/from_book_sales_to_big_impac...
If you think that books should be kept out of the landfill or the shredder, please consider starting a Friends group for your local library.
https://www.ala.org/united/friends
> In my head, this looks more like a math circle or enrichment workshop than a school. The idea is a small group, maybe 6–8 students.
You're correct, this sounds more like an after-school math club.
> I loved olympiad-style problems. The non-trivial ones. The kind where you sit with a problem for an hour, try three wrong approaches, and then something clicks. That feeling. I’d like kids to experience that early.
Math Kangaroo holds a competition every year. Their question papers for the past several years are available for sale.
You can take a look at some of the questions from last year's exam and see if they fit into your categories of patterns, creative geometry, etc:
https://mathkangaroo.org/mks/practice/free-question-samples/https://www.thethinkacademy.com/blog/2025-math-kangaroo-real...
If so, you can base your math club on solving these problems, or analogous ones that you come up with yourself.
> The focus wouldn’t be speed or grades, but depth and alternative approaches.
You can use educational toys from the company Learning Resources. They help to provide materials that children can hold and manipulate in their hands, establishing a neural pathway to abstract thinking for the same concept.
For example, here is one that uses pegs and rubber bands to teach concepts in shapes, symmetry, angles, and fractions:
https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Resources-Double-Sided-Assor...
> We’d explore [...] strategy, [...] maybe even some early economics and decision theory.
There are board game cafes where you can drop in to see the latest craze.
> If you were building this as an MVP: 1. Would you pilot a short 4–6 week program? 2. What age group would you target 3. How much curriculum do you design before you start?
Take a look at the Brain Quest Workbooks (8 book series) and get an idea of the general curriculum prescribed at each level Pre-K through Grade 6.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09D7ZJPG4
> 4. How important are credentials vs demonstrated ability?
There are many organizations that provide STEAM-oriented after-school enrichment classes to school children. You can contact them and see if you could work with them, offering your uniquely designed curriculum. You could build up your ability to teach while conducting the classes. At the same time, you could enroll in online classes for teacher training to build up your credentials.
> If you’ve started a math circle, tutoring program, micro-school or anything similar, I’d really appreciate hearing what worked, what didn’t, and what you wish you’d known at the beginning.
The skyrocketing cost of home insurance in Florida is causing some residents to sell their properties and relocate. https://www.newsweek.com/florida-
homeowners-relocating-insurance-crisis-cost-1893248 · Apr 24, 2024
My aunt endlessly researched all the options at Starbucks and then finally came up with this gold standard. (She writes out on a post-it for every visitor to her home and sticks it in their wallet so they can recite it in front of the barista.)
Cafe latte, tall, non-fat milk, one splenda. (This is fairly zero calorie.)
A stronger option is: Cafe latte, tall, an extra shot of espresso, non-fat milk, two splendas.
A quiet note of appreciation for Adam Grossman, one of the co-founders of Dark Sky. It's one thing to have an idea about a weather app, quite another to pursue it successfully within a small design agency and then make it polished enough over the years to sell it to a giant corporation like Apple. Even during that acquisition, Grossman went to bat for DarkSky's users, making sure that the API was kept live (for 2+ years running now). Post-acquisition, he has evidently become comfortable enough in a corporate environment to help evangelize the API's transition to an Apple-native SDK and Swift API. The creation of the REST API with a full mapping guide means that Grossman continues to bat for DarkSky API developers. The use of the native Swift API to create brand new Apple weather apps also appears to be well done. All-in-all, it has been a remarkable journey from a small, independent agency to a large corporate while keeping core values alive, a journey where many others have flamed out. An inspiration to all. Hats off to you, Grossman!
Go for a professional match-making service in your city. They will understand your needs and set you up for several dates with different women who also desire to get married.
Meanwhile, a 4,826 sq/ft house in Los Altos Hills sold for almost $2 million above asking (~35%) after 16 initial bids and a bidding war among 3 of those bidders.
Jesse Ventura's book on the assassination is also highly recommended. It provides a great alternative to the Lee Harvey Oswald narrative. It's so impressively thorough.
It would be great if you could make it an interactive webapp, in the sense that anyone could put in their location, and then your code would fetch all the corresponding images and data from the NOAA site.
I like your project and the thinking that you've put into it. I feel that if you carry forward your thought of comparing several news headlines, scraped from more than just 2 RSS feeds, you are basically on track to creating a full-blown news aggregator. So why not?
I loved your app; it is indeed very simple to use. I would have liked to see the location name and current weather right on the home page of the app. Do you have a Github where I could download the code and deploy it on my own servers?
Those people probably wanted to pay with cash. Walmart self-checkouts[0] switched to electronic payment only[1] when the national coin crisis hit in June 2020[2].
The Friends are a separate nonprofit from the library, usually run by volunteers. They can also accept donations from the public, keeping books out of dumpsters. They organize regular book sales which are generally popular with the reading public. https://action.everylibrary.org/from_book_sales_to_big_impac...
If you think that books should be kept out of the landfill or the shredder, please consider starting a Friends group for your local library. https://www.ala.org/united/friends
National Friends of Libraries Week is usually the third week of October every year. https://www.ala.org/united/events_conferences/folweek