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Its that time of year that we celebrate our birthday. We'll provide the Cake // Ice Cream // Fire Pit // and Good Conversation. Come out and Hang out with us on Sunday Oct 22nd from 7pm to 10 pm. Check out the space, Ask Questions and enjoy a great Fall night with us as we celebrate 14 years of Making
2023 AR Fall open house

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The Street Department has been working in front of Arch Reactor and they are currently, as of Tuesday, October 3, digging up the street in front of our driveway access. You WILL have driveway access for the October 4 monthly meeting (after 4pm-ish). You MAY have access to the driveway on Wednesday, but once they pour the concrete it will take Three Days to Cure. We were advised that we Cannot drive across the new concrete on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. We are told that if they hold the schedule, after noon on Sunday we are allowed to shift the barriers and drive across the new concrete into the parking lot.

For vehicles capable of "jumping the curb" and driving across relatively flat grass it will be possible to bypass the new concrete. Please be Careful! For anyone on a motorcycle, bicycle, or on foot, you should have easy access around the new concrete by either going across the grass or past AR and up the sidewalk.

We will be attending First Friday at the Science Center. For anyone interested in the 2600 Meeting, it may move to online-only because of this access issue.

Please watch Discord and/or This Space for more updates!

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As the STL's First HackerSpace / MakerSpace, We want to invite our neighbors, area businesses, community memebers, and their family's to come visit our space and see what's possible.


Running from 4p to 9p on Saturday the 19th .We'll have Some Music, great conversation. Hotdogs to Roast and tea to Drink, Yard Games to Play, Tours of our space, pouring of Liquid Aliumium and of course Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream.

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Open house May 9th 6p-9p

To celebrate the forthcoming summer we are hosting a BBQ.  Come on out
and hangout with the members.  We will grill burgers and hot dogs until we
run out.  Soda, water, plates and plasticware will be provided.

Bring yourself, a chair to sit on, maybe a side dish or more meat to put on
the grill, and have some  fun hanging out outside.  Kids welcome!!

Additional Activities
 
Some Members wil Bring and show off Projects 

 

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Thank you to everyone who came out to create Pysanky at AR this year!

Please watch the 2024 (Probably March) calendar for your next opportunity.

Images of the 2023 AR Pysanky

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Goose Egg Decorated with Sunflowers

Pysanky are Ukrainian Style Decorated Eggs.   Worked on whole, raw chicken eggs using wax-resist batik methods with vibrant dyes, they are unique and beautiful.

Please join us at Arch Reactor at one (or more) of our Seven Workshops in March to learn this beautiful craft.   Please see the Calendar for dates and times.   Classes begin on Tuesday, March 14 and will conclude on Tuesday, March 28.   Reserve your spot here.      You are welcome to register for multiple sessions.   

As this craft uses hot beeswax melted over candle flames this is not a craft for small, excitable children, though many children have successfully decorated beautiful eggs.   Any young child decorating will need to be closely supervised and assisted by a parent, please.  


 

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Elections for the 2023 Board are complete. The following four people were elected to two year terms:

President - Diane S
Treasurer - Derek S
Director of Public Relations - Frank K
Director of Education - Jeff S

Thank you to everyone who voted!

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superbowl of Destruction

2023 Brings us KC Chiefs vs Philadelphia Eagles

Whether you like watching 
the Super Bowl, watch for the commercials or are one of the many that have no interest what-so-ever you should come down to the Arch Reactor for our Super Bowl of Destruction VIII

Come hang out with us on Feb 12th. Starting at 4:00 pm.  AR will pick up some Pizza, and you can bring “snacky” stuff to share.  Enjoy watching the game, chatting, and of course the commercials… You can even check out the space if you haven’t had a chance to get in yet.

While we watch the game and the commercials, we will tear down old Equipment and separate it into different bins for ease of recycling.  

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out on discord, eMail, Or our Facebook account. 

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Please Vote

If you are an Active Full, Supporting, or Household Member of Arch Reactor you should have received a link from opavote.com asking you to vote in the 2023 Arch Reactor Board of Directors Election.   Per OpaVote, approximately 25 of you haven't opened that email.   Perhaps it's in your spam folder?   Perhaps the email address you gave AR when you joined isn't your primary email address anymore?    

Please look for that email and Please Vote!   

If you cannot find the email please reach out to board@archreactor.org or reach out on Discord and we'll get you a working voter-link.    

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At the beginning of every calendar year we nominate and elect members to our Board of Directors and we need the full support and action of all Arch Reactor Members for the organization to be successful.   All current Full and Supporting Members of Arch Reactor should have received an email notification with this information.   If you did not receive that email, please reach out to the Board immediately to update your email address so that you will receive your Confidential Voting Link.

 

Nominations::

Nominations for the Board remain open until the evening of January 24.   Currently the nominees are:

  • President - Diane Sudduth & Joe Cathell
  • Treasurer - Derek Sigler
  • Director of Public Relations - Frank Kallal
  • Director of Education - Jeff Simmons 

Please visit 2023 AR Board Nominations for more information and to nominate additional members.   

 

Debates::

Debates and Q&A sessions will happen Tonight at AR starting at or near 7pm.   Though the snow isn't predicted to start until fairly late this evening if you would prefer to join the meeting remotely we will use the same Jitsi link as our business meetings.   Please Join The Meeting Here   We will attempt to record the session and make it available for those who cannot attend in person but please attend live if you can and ask questions of the nominees.   You may also submit questions in advance to the nominees via Discord on the 2023-Election thread.   

Every candidate will have approximately 10 minutes to both make a statement about their goals and objectives and field questions from the assembled members.   Your active participation with questions will greatly contribute to the success of this evening.

 

The Election::

It Is Important That You Vote!   Even if a position has only one nominee it is essential that you cast your ballot. 

On Wednesday, January 25 you will receive an email from OpaVote.com with a subject line of "Arch Reactor 2023 Board of Directors Election".  This email will contain additional information about the voting process, hopefully will include a link to the recorded debate, and will give you a unique and confidential link to your ballot.   OpaVote does not permit us to correlate the URLs to individuals, your vote is confidential.    Both Full and Supporting Members should Vote.

If you have not received this email by Thursday morning, please check your Spam folder, please check the 2023 Elections Discord Channel for announcements, and then please reach out for assistance.

Please cast your ballot between Wednesday, January 25 when the email arrives and Noon on Tuesday, February 7.    Winners will be notified once voting closes and the new board will be installed at the February Business Meeting on February 7th, at 8pm.   

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