Bad at tech stuff? You definitely aren’t.

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There U Glow is a rare women, trans, femme & queer technical educational space. We specialize in helping folks with their busted glowing/technical needs. We do this by enticing folks into our orbit through the magic of glowing, rainbow LED lights and what it takes to run them.

There U Glow heavily centers and focuses on often self-described “non-technical” and traditionally marginalized folks. We also fight to raise technical women and queer folks up as the unparalleled experts and precious individuals they are, (without giving them more work to do along the way).

We teach people of all ages, but specifically and heavily focus on femmes and queers ages 20 and up. We know that we are fighting generational and cultural pipeline problems these days, not fostering technical interests in childhood.

We were forged in the welcoming sandbox of Oregon’s regional burning man event, SOAK. There U Glow emerged in 2021 as a dynamic theme camp with groundbreaking purpose and has evolved into a very popular annual experience and open source online knowledge hub. There U Glow has made a significant mark on it’s local Portland Oregon community and continues to integrate locally. Though we change shape flexibly to accommodate everything we balance, we will not stop anytime soon. What we do is too important.

Interactivity

Our mission is to fascinate the world at large and empower everyone while centering femmes & queers. We skillfully provide the knowledge and tools needed to get your glow on and explore further into your technical curiosity. Here’s just a taste of the activities we regularly provide:

• We are, at our core, an all day drop in LED fix-it station. Like the traditional burner bike-fix stations but for your ever hard to keep running binkies, glowies and any light up objects.
  

• While we help you with that, we have a sprawling fix-it station stocked with an arsenal of tools and materials for you to work on your own. We have soldering irons, electronic toils, sewing machines, a 3D printer and more. Our very own tech-savvy femmes & queers are always on hand to assist and foster curiosity in people who thought this wasn’t for them.
  

• Our beloved Lockpicking Lounge with upgraded, camp-made lockpick learning stations. Picking locks is fascinating, legal to learn, fun to work on, and should be accessible to everyone. Not just who you immediately think of when you hear “lockpicking”.
  

• Engaging talks like the “Guide To Addressable LEDs for Artists and Non-Technical Babes”, and our very popular Art Circuit Board Soldering Workshop. This may sound intimidating, it may sound exciting, but it’s here for the babes that have not yet felt like they can engage with anything like this.
  

• We also host a hardware swap pile, a place for folks to leave and take electronics and other useful items. It’s a hotspot for gifting and finding functional bits, art parts, funny shiz, and it’s always back by popular demand.
  

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