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+This is a proposal to create a holiday-themed program for kids, aimed at
+raising money for and awareness of [the Loaves & Fishes
+program](http://www.loavesandfishesdc.org/). Saturday night (weekend in
+December) would be the best time.
+
+## Proposal Vitals
+
+**Status**: In Progress, Discussion
+
+- Project Lead: [Q](User:Q "wikilink")'''
+- Proposed Budget: \$500.00'''
+- Goals:
+  - To have a high profile charity event to stimulate HacDC's presence
+    in the community
+  - To boost our 501(c)(3) application
+  - To build relationships within the church
+
+## Detailed Proposal
+
+The idea is basically to have the Church transformed into a technology
+playground for kids of the area, in a very Christmas type fashion. The
+main things we could have is someone (Nick? hehe) dressed up as Santa
+sitting on the stage talking with kids, we could have plenty of food for
+both kids and maybe the homeless (like [the F&L
+program](http://www.loavesandfishesdc.org/) already does)... The
+stage/meeting area in the Church could be the kids area and then we
+could have a separate area for just [the F&L
+program](http://www.loavesandfishesdc.org/) portion... So with foods and
+Santa comes the best part and the main reason we would want to be
+involved...
+
+We can have little workshops setup throughout the church with little
+Christmas-type kits where we can teach the kids about technology and
+creating/MAKEing/building and certainly the reality of developing
+whatever you dream.
+
+Ideally, I was thinking the workshops would include things like: NYCR's
+lazz0r and 3D printing (with some of us helping them design Christmas
+type objects to build, we need a project to collaborate with them
+anyway), One of MAKE:DC's awesome little kit builds designed with a
+Christmas theme for kids (Mark, want to design?), Maybe Elliot can do a
+micro controller class where they make some type of LED Christmas tree
+...
+
+The reality of it is that we would need a whole lot of support and
+participation from our members and friends of HacDC. This doesn't have
+to be something amazingly EPIC at first, but if we stay around awhile
+(even if we do move) we could do this anually. Not only would this help
+our 501c3 but it's also a great thing to do for our community and for
+the holidays in general.
+
+Richard has lots of turkeys and may be able to bring in his old chamber
+group together for it
+
+[Category:Proposed Projects](Category:Proposed_Projects "wikilink")