Carnegie Festival

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Dunfermline's Carnegie Festival promises to be an exciting and inspiring tribute to Andrew Carnegie and a wonderful event that will draw people from all over the world to his home town of Dunfermline.

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I SPY's the great Carnegie Innovation Hunt ­ a not-to-be-missed online challenge which integrates a spy-style treasure hunt with a web-based mission control.
Students at the Carnegie College Access Centre at 7-9 New Row centre have worked with the Spy Training Academy to create an exciting, fast-paced treasure hunt around the city centre on 30th and 31st August, as part of the first Carnegie Festival.  
This activity normally costs up to £50 a person in the corporate world, but is being offered by the festival as a free team or family event ­ subject only to a £5 returnable deposit on the spy kit supplied to the competing teams.
And up for grabs are a raft of prizes, including an X box, with a set of family games; a weekend break at Drymsynie Holiday Park, Lochgoilhead; and a family Knockhill Experience.
The search is on, for two days, to learn as much as possible about the life of Andrew Carnegie, and the elements which have been brought to Dunfermline to create the first-ever festival of Carnegie's attributes ­innovation and enterprise.
Teams of up to 10 people can book a place on this great fun day, which will develop team-building, planning, communication and time-management skills.  It's also a fun family event with questions and activities for the under 10s age-group, as well as older children and adults
Carnegie College assistant principal Janet McCauslin, who has co-ordinated the innovation and enterprise strand of the Carnegie Festival, explains, The Carnegie College Access Centre in the New Row will become mission control.
At reception will be a secret agent, and on the PCs in our learndirect Scotland centre will be live access to the Spy Training Academy's interactive Carnegie Innovation Hunt.  Don't be surprised to see several spies around the city-centre on that weekend! It¹s all part of the mystery surrounding the event.
Teams will work together in the ultimate 'all-about-town' treasure hunt, completing four missions and returning to base at the end of each mission to log their results into the internet-basedscoreboard.
The Innovation Hunt makes learning fun and interactive, and  by meshing practical and web-based learning , aims to introduce hundreds of people to Carnegie College's learndirect Access Centre in Dunfermline city centre; and to illustrate, through its four missions, how learning was key to Andrew Carnegie's economic success, his entrepreneurship, and his understanding of technology.
Mrs McCauslin added, "We will capitalise on all of our learndirect Scotland ICT resources in the mission control HQ in New Row, but would aim to introduce a new learning dimension, by having teams use MP3 players and mini-speakers as an audio guide to the missions".  
The conclusion of the time-bound missions brings all members back to HQ where they return their MP3 players, log-out of the Carnegie Innovation Hunt and register their results for the prize.

To facilitate the administration of the event, families and teams can pre-book their place on the challenge for either the 30th or 31st August by registering, with their returnable £5 deposit, at the Carnegie Festival information point in the Kingsgate from 11th August.   Entries will also be taken on the day, on a first-come, first-served basis, from teams simply by turning up with their deposits at the New Row HQ.
The event will kick-off at 10am on Saturday, 30th August, and will run through the day until the end-of-day deadline at 4pm.  On the Sunday, the day runs from 11am through to 4pm.  
Since the game can take a few hours to complete, registration will take place between 10am-2pm on the Saturday and 11am-2pm on Sunday.  If team results haven't been submitted by the 4pm deadline, then it's game over for that team.

A leader board on display at the New Row HQ will show the progress of teams, and will keep everyone focused on winning one of the great prizes to be won.
The prize-winning teams will be announced in the Dunfermline Press on Thursday, 4th September, and the prize-giving ceremony will take place at the festival finale in Pittencrieff Park on 6th September.
Mrs McCauslin adds, "Oh, and finally a tip for the winning team! Comfortable shoes will be one of the secrets to success, as moving around the city centre, looking out for clues, and seeking the help of specially trained spies is all part of the fun ­ and, for tiny tots, a set of well-oiled wheels on the buggy"  
With hundreds of teams able to participate in this event over the weekend, it really is going to be family fun for all ages.  Don't miss out ­ it's a once-only opportunity.

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About Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie forged the world's greatest fortune in the steel furnaces of Pittsburgh and lavished his millions on funding libraries, education, science and the arts.

Now his living legacy is being celebrated in his native Dunfermline with the launch of a new festival inspired by the "father of modern philanthropy".

Royal Dunfermline is re-asserting its city status as the precursor to Edinburgh as Scotland's capital and like its much older cousin, the Edinburgh International Festival, Carnegie Festival 2008 promises to be a multi-dimensional experience, encompassing film, politics, innovation and enterprise.

In what is planned to become an annual fixture, the inaugural Carnegie Festival has joined forces with the Scottish Parliament's Festival of Politics - in its first outreach beyond Holyrood - and the Edinburgh International Science Festival to mount an exciting programme of events which will run from 21st August to 6th September.

Andrew Carnegie was a strong proponent of international peace and democracy alongside his passions for libraries, education, science and the arts. He was a prolific writer, his books including Triumphant Democracy. Andrew Carnegie established over 20 foundations and institutions worldwide, from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C. to the Peace Palace in The Hague.

Here in the United Kingdom, Carnegie institutions support democracy and civil society, youth empowerment, community regeneration, further and higher education and scientific research.

Now the Carnegie UK Trust, the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust and Carnegie College are partnering with Fife Council and sponsors in the corporate and higher education sectors to mount an eclectic programme that is designed to entertain, inform, inspire, provoke and challenge...

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The inaugural Carnegie Festival  launched its programme of events with the help of William Thomson CBE, great-grandson of Andrew Carnegie, 'Skelatron', the rope climbing robot and Provost of Fife Frances Melville.

The Carnegie Festival takes place in Dunfermline from 21 August - 7 September and has joined forces with high profile partners including the Scottish Parliament's Festival of Politics - in its first outreach beyond Holyrood - and the Edinburgh International Science Festival to mount an exciting programme of events encompassing film, politics, innovation and enterprise.

Provost of Fife Frances Melville said "The Carnegie Festival is to be congratulated on organising such an interesting and full programme for this year following their successful inaugural Children's Book Festival Last year. I hope that as many people as possible will be able to attend the wide variety of events being held."
Angus Hogg, Chairman of the Carnegie UK Trust and Company Director of the Carnegie Festival said: "We are absolutely delighted to be making the dream of a Carnegie Festival a reality. There has been enormous interest in the programme from all sections of the community and tremendous support from our sponsors, including Fife Council who awarded £25,000 from the Major Events Funding Programme to support the delivery of the festival this year ."

The festival is presented in three sections:

Innovation and Enterprise - aimed at inspiring the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs by providing exciting and interactive workshops, seminars, games and lectures.  The programme has been coordinated by Carnegie College working closely with the Carnegie Trusts and is benefitting from fantastic support from FMC, Shell, Babcock Marine, Dunfermline Building Society and Rolls Royce.  

Film - includes new movie screenings and classics such as ET, plus In Focus profiles on Blue Planet cameraman Doug Allan and film director Murray Grigor, who has just co-authored a book with Sean Connery. The Film Festival is sponsored by Napier University and also features the showreel of prize winning students of its Screen Academy.
 
Politics - As well as Holyrood events on 'The New Politics of Giving' and 'Power to the People', the Politics strand in Dunfermline will feature a Question Time session with Rt. Hon George Reid MP, broadcaster Lesley Riddoch, former spin doctor Charlie Whelan and Carnegie Scholar Robert Kagan; an interview with George Galloway by BBC's Evan Davis and The Youth Politics Festival: Think Global; Speak Local which will be a dual-campus event, hosted concurrently in Carnegie College in Dunfermline and in the Scottish Parliament, joined together by video-link technology.

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CARNEGIE IN QUOTES

"There is little success where there is little laughter"

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents"

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it"

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do"

"No man can become rich without himself enriching others"

"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave"

"The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket"

"Do your duty and a little more, and the future will take care of itself"

IN NUMBERS

1835
The year Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Fife.
1.20
Carnegie's first weekly wage, in dollars, at a cotton mill, when he was aged 13.
1865
The year Carnegie launched his own business interests and began a bonanza.
480m
The amount in dollars that Carnegie sold his steel company for.
350m
The amount in dollars given away by Andrew Carnegie.
2,509
The number of libraries throughout the English-speaking world that Carnegie built ".