March 2023 Newsletter
Thanks to everyone who filled out the questionnaire! It’s great to see everyone have so many interests and it gave me some ideas for future events.
March 2023
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“Hello!” from Your Gifted Youth Coordinator
My name is Lana Lee and I’m the Gifted Youth Coordinator in Region 8 for local groups that do not have a Gifted Youth Coordinator, like yours!Â
February 2023
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January 2023
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December 2022
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Bios of speakers
Return to schedule About the Speakers Keynote Addresses Alex   Pentland  Professor at MIT Saturday Keynote Professor at MIT, co-created of MIT Media Lab,. Member board UN Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, board advisor OECD, American Bar Association, Grammy Awards, Consumer Reports. One of the most-cited computational scientists in the world, serial entrepreneur whose spin-offs touch a good fraction of humanity.. Dr. Seth Shostak Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute Sunday Keynote Dr. Shostak has  a degree in radio astronomy and obtained his Ph.D. in astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology Currently he is Senior Astronomer at SETI Institute. Seth is he host of the SETI Institute’s weekly science radio show, “Big Picture Science.” He is enthusiastic in outreach activities: interesting the public – and especially young people – in science in general, and astrobiology in particular. His numerous publications include: More than 60 research papers in refereed, professional journals Approximately three hundred popular articles published in magazines, newspapers, and the Web, on a wide range of topics. He was editor of two scientific book and contributor to five popular astronomy books. Several commissioned scripts for public relations videos produced for commercial clients and wo scripts for planetarium shows. He’s co-authored a college textbook on astrobiology, Authored three trade books on SETI. His major awards include: Carl Sagan Award for the Popularization of Science Klumpke Roberts Award for Astronomy Popularization Jaap S. Nieuwenhuis Award, from Netherlands Association for Scientific Film and Television Wubbo Ockels Award, for applied science (image processing in the service of computer animation), The Netherlands Best Bay Area Talk Show, BACE cable TV award Speakers Steve...November 2022
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RG 2022 Program
Speaker Bios Schedule of Events Friday 11/18 Saturday 11/19 Sunday 11/20 Friday 11/18 3:00 Registration Opens To the right of lobby Hospitality Opens Room 265 4:00 Games Room Opens Wimbledon A 4:00-5:15 Masters | Music of Love and Life Before playing each song on the keyboard, Marty Nemko — I’ll read an engaging phrase from the song and ask the audience, “Does this have any meaning for you?” Wimbledon B | Meet the Mensans: Ice Breaker Activity “Lighthearted sharing of responses to prompts followed by a collaborative reading of Woody Allen’s ‘The Whore of Mensa 5:30-6:30 Wine Reception On the Patio Hospitality Closed Hospitality Service closes for the Wine Reception and reopens at 6:30pm 5:45 Hospitality | Closes reopens at 7:3- … 6:30-8:00 Dinner on Your Own Hotel restaurant hours:….Dinner ( Bar area)….5:00pm – 10:00 pm   Local Restaurant list will be available at the registration desk, 8:15-9:30 Triple Crown | The Greatest Bay Aera Joke-Off ever! Peter Antoniak — Bring you latest jokes for an hour of structured and un-structured laughter and merriment. Wimbledon B | Cards against Humanity Judy& Bernie Unger — Cards Against Humanity calls itself “A game for horrible people”. The moreperverted your sense of humor, the more fun the game is for everybody………………….. At the start of the game each player takes 10 white cards from the deck. These cards have random phrases on them like . “Wizard Music”, or “a bird wearing a hat”…………………. Some one takes the role of the card Czar. They will pick a card from the black deck it will have a question or incomplete phrase which the...October 2022
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