{"id":93175,"date":"2019-03-21T09:24:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=93175"},"modified":"2020-03-06T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T00:00:09","slug":"leeward-cc-geek-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/leeward-cc-geek-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Get your geek on at Leeward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>\u2019s tech, digital lifestyle workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_93160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93160\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-kids.jpg\" alt=\"children learning with technology on Geek Day\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-kids.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-kids-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-kids-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Technology for all ages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Free workshops on technology and today\u2019s digital lifestyle will be offered at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/\">Leeward Community College<\/a>\u2019s 10th annual Geek Day on Saturday, March 30, 9:30 a.m.&#8211;12:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Geek Day offers hands-on workshops with demonstrations of digital, mobile and technology topics, from archiving a digital life to online security. Sessions are designed for the general public.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_93159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93159\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-computers-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people working on computers\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-computers-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-computers-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-computers-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-computers.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Harada explains the art of technology.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_93158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93158\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-cameras-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people looking at their cameras\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-cameras-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-cameras-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-cameras-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-geek-day-cameras.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharing photo tips at Geek Day.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>There will be a digital caf&#233;, where people can discover new apps, receive one-on-one help with computer problems and experience hands-on demonstrations of Oculus Go, a virtual reality headset and Pupbo, a robotic dog.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions include how to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>archive a digital life<\/li>\n<li>shoot better digital photos (bring your own camera)<\/li>\n<li>master digital video<\/li>\n<li>get organized with Trello, a web-based list-making application build your own app<\/li>\n<li>use technology for health and wellness<\/li>\n<li>accelerate your use of Google Drive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All activities are free and open to the public. Doors open at 9 a.m. for coffee and registration, with the first session beginning at 9:30 a.m. Door prizes include iTunes, Google Play and Amazon gift cards.<\/p>\n<p>For more details about Geek Day, including specific locations of activities, <a href=\"http:\/\/geekday.weebly.com\/\">see the Geek Day website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kathleen Cabral<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geek Day offers hands-on workshops with demonstrations of digital, mobile and technology topics, from archiving a digital life to online security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[65,914,71],"class_list":["post-93175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-technology","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93175"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112742,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93175\/revisions\/112742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}