<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Hello, </font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Due to cancellations, we have a few spaces left for our upcoming iFixit Technical Writing Symposium on August 9-10th, including some travel funding. The symposium is a fun event that brings together instructors from all across the nation to get hands-on with the iFixit Technical Writing Project and explore if it is a good fit for their classes. The symposium is free to attend for instructors. For more details, see the original announcement below. </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">If you are interested in attending, please reach out to <a href="mailto:education@ifixit.com">education@ifixit.com</a> as soon as possible, or follow the link to register below. </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Original announcement: </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b id="gmail-m_6698333145956061629gmail-m_-7046762791822750588gmail-docs-internal-guid-e1fd3504-6864-00cc-f194-273a2cbaedd1" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:normal"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">iFixit Technical Writing Symposium 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Back by popular demand, iFixit will be hosting its fifth annual workshop August 9-10th to train educators who are interested in bringing iFixit’s Technical Writing Program to their universities. The workshop is a great opportunity to connect with veteran instructors, receive hands-on experience with the program, meet the folks behind iFixit, and enjoy a few days on California’s Central Coast. The workshop is free to attend, and all interested instructors are welcome, but spaces are limited. To register, please fill out</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSfK_3u0btZB6Sx_PQ6SNan5lp-ib-pYsOZpnZW3T1Tw4WizwA/viewform" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">this registration form</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program Details:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Teaching technical communication to students—who often don’t see the importance of writing in their future careers—can be a formidable challenge. Finding ways to bring a sense of relevancy to the material is one of the greatest difficulties that instructors face in the classroom.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eight years ago, iFixit set out to engage students with a hands-on, repair-focused technical writing project. Since the iFixit Technical Writing Program’s inception in 2009, students from 70 universities have created 22,000 open-source repair guides, </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">freely available to anyone via the internet,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> which have helped over 47 million people worldwide to fix their things.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The program is a chance for students to engage in technical writing that has real-world impact. Students work on an actual device, author a complete repair manual, and gain experience creating contemporary, wiki-based online documentation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More than just an excellent learning experience, the program has roots in a deeper mission: iFixit’s goal is to tackle the growing, global e-waste problem. The repair guides that students produce are responsible for keeping more household devices in use and out of landfills. For more information about the program, please visit</span><a href="http://edu.ifixit.com/prospective-universities" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://edu.ifixit.com/prospect<wbr>ive-universities</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Travel Funding:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">iFixit will also select candidates for iTRIP, iFixit’s Travel ReImbursement Program, to help defray a portion of travel costs for the workshop. If you are interested in applying for iTRIP, or have any questions about the workshop or the program, please contact </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:education@ifixit.com" target="_blank" style="">education@ifixit.com</a></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more details about the symposium, including the schedule, please visit:</span><a href="http://edu.ifixit.com/symposium" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://edu.ifixit.com/symposiu<wbr>m</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thanks, </p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Brittany McCrigler </p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Director of Education Services, iFixit </p></b><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></font><br></div></div>