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Happy Birthday, element14!

The Best Thing to Ever Happen to June 14th. image

So, in the style of our Raspberry Pi celebration, I was going to kick-off this post talking about other really cool things that happened on June 14th. However, after looking at the Wikipedia Page dedicated to this date... I was honestly coming up a bit short. Yes, things happened, but a lot of them weren't great. For example, Albert II became the first monkey in space... before dying on impact. Yikes. So instead, myself and decided that element14 is probably the best thing to ever happen on June 14th. Go us!

 

Happy "First" Birthday!

And while this is the eighth birthday for the community, this is a "first" for a couple members of the element14 team, so wanted to give a quick shout out to , Mindi and of course... yours truly (though it's a bit depressing to wish "happy birthday" to oneself). But I digress. Here's to a happy "first birthday" to the newest members of the element14 team, and what will hopefully be many more years to come.

 

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To help commemorate the occasion, every member who logs in between now and June 28th, 12PM CDT will receive the "element14 8th Birthday Badge". This is a limited time only badge, and once the day and time has passed you will no longer be able to receive it (even if you ask really, really nicely). In addition to this, we'll be giving away eight birthday presents to various members of the community. You heard (read) that correctly - we'll be giving presents to you!

 

How to Win

Comment below with where you were or what you were doing when the element14 community launched. While some of you were probably diligently working to ensure a smooth and successful launch (looking at you, ), many of us didn't join until weeks, months or years later. We'll choose eight members who reply, and send them their choice of the following presents:

 

For example: On June 14th, 2009 I was likely celebrating the finish of Finals Week at my University. Since DePaul is on a quarter system, we generally went a bit latter into the year than other schools, with Finals Week usually the first or second week of June. And by celebrating, I was probably catching up after a few all nighters and trying really, really, really hard to not stress about my pending grades (I graduated with a 3.445, so I think I did fairly well, even if I missed *** Laude by .005).

 

You have until June 30th, 11:59AM (noon) CDT to enter.

 

Going Green

Looking for another cool way to celebrate June 14th and potentially win some prizes? Be sure to check out Going Green, the newest Project14 competition that's launching today! This is the first theme that was chosen by members of the community, so we're all very excited to see what cool projects you come up with.

  • in reply to jdlui

    ah, les années d'école pour des études que l'on a choisies sont souvent de très bons souvenirs  et ceux et celles avec qui ont les a partagées demeurent de bons amis...

  • I remember June 14, 2009 fairly well. It was a Sunday in the first year of my Chemical Engineering degree at the University of Waterloo, and I had just turned 19, the drinking age in Canada. This meant that I was eagerly learning about chemistry with friends on Saturday nights at one of our various drinking events, and having a very slow wake-up to my day on Sunday morning (or afternoon). I woke up, struggled to re-hydrate myself, went to my local Parkour club to enjoy some fresh air and exercise, and then eventually when they daylight hours waned, I roamed home to consider schoolwork and preparation for the next day.

  • joyeux Anniversaire Element 14!

     

    Tout nouveau membre, je suis en parallèle à ce message en train de charger Raspbian sur un Pi 3 avec un écran 7 pouces E 14.

    Ce jour là je rangeais mes affaires professionnelles et préparait mon sac de montagne pour partir en via ferrata dans le Beaufortain avec 2 amis -collègues.

    J'espère pouvoir vous souhaiter encore de nombreux anniversaires .

    Cordialement Ch.

  • A very happy bday element 14  

     

     

    That day me and my brother and my cousin was planning for the bday of my cousin's brother  that day was grate because we all sis and brothers are at our maternal grandparents home and there we all enjoyed a lot we always enjoy there a lot really always

  • damm it´s hard to remember last week ... so what was on 14th June 2009? guess it was a day that i was working in my voluntary social year in a retirement home. helping people to get out of the bed, to put there cloth on, get to the bathroom and all the other stuff they can´t do anymore without help.

    weekends where always stressfull in the morning, if you got like 5 to 8 older people that you help to stay up from bed and ready to breakfast. Not all of them were still able to walk alone, some have to be mobilized with a wheelchair and others with rollator. Normaly i was done with a people short before it was already lunchtime. so you only got a little break till then.

    the afternoon was way more layed back. with Cake and coffee for the older people. most of them were such nice persons. and i remember it was great for me too, cause my grandparents died years before...  i got like many substitute grandparents :-) . it only was hard when some of the older people died.... most if you got to know them well.

    But i never regret this time, it was very helpful for my way as grown up young adult.

     

     

  • On June 14, 2009... I was on my last year of high school, I wasn't sure about which career i should go, i studied my "pre colleague" on automotive mechanic it was awesome, but i feel that it was lacking on the magic of electronics, and i was thinking that it ended pretty quickly so for my undergraduate i choose Biomedical Engineer, it may sound a bit awkward but it is awesome, i love electronics and already hacked my own car, added several features and i'm looking forward to keep thinkering about it, the electronics changed the way i see the world and now i definitely know what i want to do with my life.

  • Definitely still in school, oh so so long ago....

  • Happy Birthday E14!

    June 14, 2009 was around the time I was starting my new job as an engineer, so I was busy

    learning my new responsibilities.

  • June 14, 2009, yes I remember it well. Recovering from half marathon two weeks prior, yesterday's 100 mile hot local bike ride, all in preparation for my second half ironman event coming up in July.

     

    I would have been greatful to have a job at the time too.