Pacific reef heron: Minutes for 4/18/20 open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting

Minutes for WUaS's open Monthly Business Meeting on Sat. 4/18/20 

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/minutes-for-41820-open-wuas-monthly.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/pacific-reef-heron-minutes-for-41820.html

World University and School

Minute 0 -

World Univ & Sch has scheduled a meeting with the MIT Office of Digital Learning on Thursday, May 14, 2020, to talk about possible collaboration - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html.

For example, for WUaS /Robotics and /Programming -

beyond the (MIT) Scratch programming language which works with Lego Robotics, -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics & /Programming

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/robotics - 

World University and School seeks to collaborate with
MIT for infrastructure, knowledge and skills to build these out, and especially for WUaS teaching of machine learning with, for example, Lego Robotics. See, for example

- Lego Robotics into Machine/Reinforcement Learning & CC-4 Wiki adding to WUaS, 3 Feb 2020 LiveStream
- "Special WeDo2 Scratch BOXER" - https://youtu.be/HjD1zAWToYU
- "MIT Lego Robot Competition '99"- https://youtu.be/SXH-bBw3uxg
- "Google Research Football" (Soccer) - https://youtu.be/F8DcgFDT9sc

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/painted-turtle-lego-robotics-into.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/flying-and-gliding-animals-this-is-next.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/mckay-creek-national-wildlife-refuge.html

- and potentially with Minecraft with its Lego scale - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/salmon-eggs-wuas-livestream-today-w.html & ...

In CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World Univ & Sch's seeking to develop in a single realistic virtual earth for STEM and as classrooms, first in English, please see:

MIT's course "Creating Videogames" is opening to the public this Wed from 2-2:45 ET. Prof. Philip Tan is cool; he was a guest speaker in @karen_brennan 's class a few years back. Tell the young people you know who are interested in designing video games:
http://gamelab.mit.edu/event/explore-the-minecraft-institvte-of-technology-with-our-creating-videogames-class/
https://twitter.com/chrisbuttimer/status/1254795847038009346?s=20

- with Minecraft's Lego scale, and for 'Home Robotics,' and, for example - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click - and related #hashtags.

Minute 1 -

In WUaS seeking highest achieving students with related admission's criteria to MIT's - https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/what-we-look-for/ - and while still remaining relatively open for admissions re MIT and Harvard founded edX, WUaS will seek top students and reimbursement, due to the CC-4 licensing of MIT OCW, from all 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(United_States) ) as well as the US federal government. WUaS will also seek reimbursement from departments of education in all ~200 countries.

Reimbursement payment mechanism for World Univ & Sch from departments of education in all ~200 countries may begin with WUaS coding for students in all ~200 countries' official languages, wiki-Universitians in all 7,117 known living languages, and from there all 7.5 billion people on planet (for a variety of reasons, including UBI experiments to distribute a single cryptocurrency to some number of all ~200 countries).

WUaS seeks to offer 30-60 first year courses in the autumn of 2020.

See, too:
> https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/rings-of-saturn-what-mit-looks-for-in.html
> https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturn-planet-thanks-for-your-email-and.html

Minute 2 -

World Univ & Sch seeks to develop online student retention strategies: eg JuryX HarvardX edX course by Harvard Law Emeritus Charles Nesson as one model for retention.

WUaS seeks this autumn 50-100 students from Greece who speak English, and thanks to Petros Kalligas in Athens, Greece:
Greece World Univ & Sch with Petros Kalligas in Athens - 23 March 2020 Q & A and News
https://youtu.be/q4H-Li-Ei0o

- https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

WUaS also seeks to develop approaches to reimbursement from Greece regarding Prime Minister Mitsotakis, with Harvard and Stanford degrees - and as the WUaS platform develops.

Minute 3 -

The 2020 15 planned WUaS revenue streams is updated here - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html

And Larry Viehland and Scott MacLeod wrote this letter - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html to MIT President Rafael Reif, and now have scheduled a talk with the MIT Office of Digital Learnng on May 14, 2020.

WUaS seeks to explore in what ways WUaS and MIT help and possibly edX/MITx could collaborate. We'll also explore in this letter in what ways WUaS could explore financial collaboration with MIT regarding MIT President Rafael Reif's recent financial letter - "Letter regarding MIT's financial picture and next steps" - http://news.mit.edu/2020/letter-regarding-institute-financials-0413. We'll explore in particular how these 2020 15 planned WUaS revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html - might all come together in collaboration with MIT.



Minute 5 -

CFO Larry Viehland now has direct access to online bank accounts for both of WUaS's wings.



Minute 6 -

WUaS Livestreams on Monday at 10 am PT are continuing ... > https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch
> and newly on the WUaS LiveStream channel -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/live
(with new videos here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/)

Thanks to Peter Bothe for helping with Live-streaming!)

Sincerely,
Scott

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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577
- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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WUaSCorporation, WUaSPress

Minute A -
The 2020 WUaS Corp Business Plan is updated - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/wuas-corporation-business-plan-april.html

List on the emerging Silicon Valley long term stock exchange, which has already received one approval by the SEC. What are a list of rules to list?

On the WUaS Corporation wing, explore the emergence of the Silicon Valley Long Term Stock market - and seek to join this 'under the wing' of Alphabet / Google? More about the Long Term Stock exchange here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/centaurea-cyanus-bachelors-button-plans.html.





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Agenda and News for April 18, 2020 World University and School's open monthly business meeting:

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/agenda-and-news-for-41820-open-monthly.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/snapping-turtle-eggs-chelydra.html

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