I have a educational budget of $5200 to spend…
Any suggestions?
start grad school, software training, I’ve always fancied bike building school, though I’m pretty sure that’s out if it’s a work budget.
Buy a wooden chest.
Use half the money to buy some gold.
Put the gold in the chest.
Bury the chest somewhere cool.
Use the second half of the money to make a kick ass treasure hunt full of cryptic clues and mind bending puzzles.
Create a cool treasure map as a guide.
Leave the map somewhere a buddy will find it.
Secretly follow them with a video camera and enjoy your own personal low budget Indiana Jones movie.
EDIT: I didn’t see that it was an “educational budget”, so write a paper about it when you’re all done.
Send a check to me and do a report on what I choose to spend it on and why. That’ll be a pretty good education.
Does educational budget mean it has to be spent on Education?
Or you just have $5200 to blow?
$5200 would buy a nice Cintiq, new desktop and maybe even a fancy office chair.
This year we have decided that my wife will complete her masters in Autism in order to become a consultant. I will start grad school 2015 fall at North Western for MPD2
I already have both those items 
and yes it has to be educational purpose as it relates to tax laws.
Arrrrgh that be an interesting idea matey, but i do think i would walk the plank in the end.
I would say i learned that lesson with my first order off the back of a comic book when i was 8.
sign up for a night class at a local college in something you want to do, and then blow the rest on “supplies” and keep the receipts.
In all seriousness, take an HTML and CSS class at a local community college if it’s available. Even if you aren’t or don’t intend to be a web designer at all, it is a super useful skill set and basically takes you from novice to internet ninja in three or four lessons. It’s easy stuff to learn.
I didn’t realize how much I didn’t understand about how the internet worked until I took those classes. Now I know what a website actually is and why things work the way they do.
Two Cintiqs. Duh.
Research trip.
Buy, try, and report back these (to help me decide if I want to buy one):
Wacom Windows 8 tablet:
http://buywacom.com.au/products/creative-pen-displays/cintiq-companion-512gb.html?utm_source=wacom.com&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=New%20Price
Printrbot:
http://printrbot.com/shop/simple-black-assembled/