Back in vermont after being in a different hotel room for each of the last three nights. Whirwind busy week.. but totally fun and very interesting from a work perspective.
My flight into white planes was almost 2 hours late.. so that I got in around midnight… I didn’t trust making a 5 hour drive, so I got a hotel in Connecticut.. Good choice. I actually managed to get a few hours sleep before starting again for home early this morning.. I had a fll day of phone meetings.. so the drive time was quite perspective.. but by the time I got home in late afternoon i was really beat.
I had to rally everything i had to get back in the car and shlepp down to UVM for tonight’s Governors Institute finale.. Every year i do an electricity show for the GIV Engineering program for my friends Tom, Beth and Ann.. I think I’ve done it for 10 years.. this year was one of the best crop of kids.. they were high school kids from all over the country and a few from outside of the US.
It’s always hard adjusting my show for older kids. they know tons more stuff.. but they are harder to engage .. this group was really great.. they new their science.. and they were a ton of fun.. I was talking to my friend Joe who was there working on robotics with he kids.. he confirmed what I’d been thinking.. kids are getting better at hands on stuff.. things like FIRST and the internet maker sites are giving more kids a maker experience earlier in their careers.. i suspected (and hoped) it was happening.. but today was the first time a teacher had confirmed
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After the show, we went out in the parking lot and played ‘flamethrower’
Then back to the dorms for a quikc brithday party for one of the kids (tristan).. 
It was great doing the show.. being with these lids/young adults restores my confidence that humanity is going to be fine.. !
Now I need to get some sleep.. more tomorrow
nite all, nite sam
-me