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-== '''Science Fair!''' ==
+Do you have a phenomenal demo you want to show off? Do you need help with your awesome project? Are you working on experiment or idea that needs feedback?
-Do you need help with an awesome project you're working on? Do you have a phenomenal demo you want to show off to your fellow Mozillians? Are you working on experiment or idea that needs feedback or testers?
+'''The Drumbeat Festival will hold a Science Fair on opening night.''' The idea: show off what you've got and seek out collaborators for the next two days.
-At the Drumbeat Festival you'll have your chance to show off what you've got and talk with your fellow Mozillians about it face-to-face!
+The Science Fair is scheduled on Wednesday, November 3 from 9pm – 11pm. It will take place as part of the opening reception, following a keynote by Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito. We'll have tables, chairs, power-outlets...and cocktails! Other participants will wander around the exhibits, stopping to chat, watch demos, ask questions, and generally just dive in and talk about stuff.
-We're creating space at our opening reception for our first ever "Mozilla Summit Science Fair", where participants will set up their laptops and demos in a single large area of the venue that will have an array of tables, chairs, power-outlets...and cocktails! Everyone else will wander around the exhibits, stopping to chat, watch demos, ask questions, and generally just dive in, talk about stuff, and vote on their favorites.
+This will be '''your first chance to present something at the Festival''' -- research, prototypes, demos, crazy ideas, experiments, trials, tests, investigations, studies, or whatever else -- in a casual setting to some of the smartest and best people working on building and supporting open education on the web today.
-The Science Fair is your chance for you to present something -- research, prototypes, demos, crazy ideas, experiments, trials, tests, investigations, studies, or whatever else -- in a casual setting to some of the smartest and best people working on building and supporting open education on the web today.
+===Sign up, space is limited!===
+While we'd love to have every Summit attendee participate in the Science Fair, we only have so much time and space. There are a limited number of slots available, which will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis.
-'''Space is limited!'''
+Sign up now: [https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFVYakFYNjVNNFlYSC04bVFlMm5yY3c6MQ Drumbeat Festival Science Fair Sign-up Sheet]
-But space is limited! While we'd love to have every Summit attendee participate in the Science Fair, we only have so much time and space. There are a limited number of slots available, which will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis.
+'''
+Sign-ups end on October 25.''' Festival organizers will select approximately 25 proposals, giving equal weight to demo worthiness (will people get it?) and timing of your proposal (early submissions get higher priority).
-'''Sign up!'''
+===The details===
-The Science Fair is scheduled on Wednesday, November 3 from 9pm – 11pm, following our opening keynote.  If you want to participate, please head over to the Summit Science Fair Sign-up Sheet and fill in the form as soon as you can. Science Fair slots will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis, with sign-ups ending on October 25.
-[Summit Science Fair Sign-up Sheet]
-https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFVYakFYNjVNNFlYSC04bVFlMm5yY3c6MQ
 '''What we provide'''
-•	table
-•	chairs
+*table
-•	power outlets
+*chairs
+*power outlets
 '''What you bring'''
-•	yourself
-•	your team (if you have one)
+*yourself
-•	prototypes, wireframes, software, robots …whatever toys and visuals help you show people what you want to talk about
+*your team (if you have one)
-•	your laptop and any charts, graphs or maps that help communicate your work -- this can take the form of a mini-presentation, a demo, etc.
+*prototypes, wireframes, software, robots …whatever toys and visuals help you show people what you want to talk about
+*your laptop and any charts, graphs or maps that help communicate your work -- this can take the form of a mini-presentation, a demo, etc.
 '''Questions?'''
-If you have any questions about the Summit Science Fair (or the Summit in general) please send a note to yesyolanda@gmail.com and we'll get back to you as quickly as we can.
+If you have any questions about the Drumbeat Festival Science Fair (or the Festival in general) please send a note to yesyolanda@gmail.com and we'll get back to you as quickly as we can.
+PS. Mozilla has done this before. Check out these [http://www.flickr.com/search/?mt=all&adv=1&w=all&q=moz10+science+fair&m=text Mozilla Summit Science Fair pictures] to get a sense of how it works.