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Drumbeat Science Fair: MACBA Atrium, Nov 3, 9pm - sign up before Oct 25

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.

This will be your first chance to present something at the Festival -- research, prototypes, demos, crazy ideas, experiments, trials, tests, investigations, studies, whatever -- in a casual setting to some of the smartest people working on open education on the web today.

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.

FYI, we've done this before. Check out these Mozilla Summit Science Fair pictures to get a sense of how it works.

Sign up, space is limited!

While we'd love to have everyone present at the Science Fair, we only have so much time and space. There are a limited number of slots available.

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-ups end on October 25. Preference goes to early submissions. Sign up here now.

The details

What we provide

  • table
  • chairs
  • power outlets

What you bring

  • yourself
  • your team (if you have one)
  • 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 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.