Today was a fun and busy day. It was the annul TechJam put on by my friends at 7Days. It’s a great meetup  of local tech companies showing their wares and collecting resumes.   Its always exciting and a bit overwhelmign to go there because I run into soooooo many people I know. I love it… and at the same time feel a little strange being able to have only really short fragmented conversations with everyone. 
today I was there representing  2.. organization.   Beta was there in force with  our  mobile simulator and 3 of our studyhall demos..  I was also there as part of the FIRST robotics meetup.  It was a huge day for us.. we had robot teams from across the state from all levels.. Middle school First Lego League (FLL) teams, High school FIrst Tech Challenge (FTC) teams and even 2 big robots from FIRST Robotics Competition (FTC). Our friend Cathy had assigned us a perfect place to meet the public. I nice big windowed room right at the entrance of Techjam. We met hundreds and hundreds of people.. and showed them how fun it was to build robots. We had our 2nd annual (I guess !) robot parade which was super fun.  It was a wonderful gatherign for all of us robot folks.. 

I ran into so many people. My friends Jon wore his “I’m not john cohn’ shirt.    which he wore as a surprise. I have a matching ‘i’m not jon bondy’ shirt  . It would have been really funny if i’d worn that.  Folks always thought we looked alike back in the day.   He’s a cool guy. I also ran in to Eric.. max’s 4th grade pen pal !

 

My beta friends had a wonderful day.. We had the mobile dome and several of our studyhall demos. The place was pretty packed most of the day.. they were all outside in the most beautiful weather.. a great place to watch the sunset !

 

I also really enjoyed the  panel with my friend  John Abele and Sarah Kalil

It was a great day !

nite all, nite sam

-me