Hey Baltimore Nerds! Welcome to Nerd Nite number 20! Come out June 12th, grab a beer, and settle-in for the best 2 hours you’ll spend on a Wednesday!
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Talk #1: Why the Avengers Aren’t the True Heroes of the Marvel Universe by Jaye Ferrone
Jaye Ferrone, resident vintage-wearing-cat-lady of Nerd Nite Baltimore, full time barber, part time student, all the time wino. Jaye is leaving beautiful Baltimore this summer to attend Univeristy of Arizona to pursue a grad and PhD program in sociolinguistics under her idol, Noam Chomsky. While an Uber-Nerd, Jaye hasn’t seen any of the Star Wars movies, no Star Trek, and until last month hadn’t picked up a comic book or knew anything about superheroes in or outside the Marvel Universe. So…. this could go badly.
Talk #2: Photo Manipulation and Misconduct in Biomedical Research by Tagide deCarvalho
Talk #3: A 360° View of History by Debbie Farthing
This presentation discusses the use of imaging technology to add both hi-def and 360° photographs to add elements to a presentation to aid in user interactivity. For my master’s thesis, I am creating an online exhibit that explores the various influences on 19th century women’s clothing. In conjunction with the Imaging Research Center at UMBC, in part, this thesis project aims to provide unprecedented access to the garments in the exhibit normally not available to the average person.
Bio: Debbie Farthing is a long-time collector of antique and vintage and owns a collection that spans from the 1750s to the 1950s. She is a graduate student at UMBC earning her master’s degree in Public History. She works as a collection manager for Gibson Island Historical Society and Hancock’s Resolution and volunteers at the Baltimore Museum of Industry creating historical clothing installations.
Tickets available online and at the door for $5! Profits go to charity of the audience’s choosing 🙂
Hey Baltimore Nerds! Welcome to Nerd Nite number 19! Come out April 10th, grab a beer, and settle-in for the best 2 hours you’ll spend on a Wednesday! (Talks may not be in the order listed below.)
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Talk #1: ‘The History and Significance of Memes’ by Mary Parrish
What are memes? Where do they come from? Why do they matter? All of these questions and more will be answered during this in depth and riveting presentation!
Bio: Mary Parrish is a jack-of-all-trades creative who lives and works in Baltimore. She enjoys long walks in Druid Hill Park, memes, and trying to find the best happy hour deals in the city.
Talk #2: Extreme environments in space and time by Dr. Hannah Wakeford
Earth has nothing on the universe when it comes to wild weather. Within our own solar system, there are storms so large that our entire planet would be engulfed three times over. The thousands of exoplanets we have uncovered feature not only alien worlds with alien sunsets, but also extreme weather and climates. Join Dr. Wakeford for an adventure into the most extreme weather known to science.
Bio: Hannah is the Giacconi Fellow at Space Telescope Science Institute where she uses the Hubble Space Telescope to try and understand the atmospheres of alien worlds orbiting other stars. Hannah also runs a podcast called Exocast, talking about extrasolar planets and what we are learning about them if you want to hear more.
Talk #3: SysAdmin Spotting: The journey of a math nerd to SysAdmin, Part 1 by Randy Philipp
What is a SysAdmin? What is Unix? How does one become a SysAdmin? Hopefully these will be answered in Randy’s talk about his personal journey from Math Nerd to Unix System Administrator. Along the way, we will meet celebrities of Computer Field (you might have heard of some of them), learn about a ISP house band, learn what TLAs are.
Bio: Randy is a SysAdmin, of the Unix variety (he doesn’t do Windows). He has turned his obsession with computers into an actual career. He started as a Mathematics major, so he actually knows some stuff. Beyond computers, he is also a Film Nerd, so do not be surprised if he drops some reference to a movie that nobody else has seen.
Hey Baltimore Nerds! Welcome to our Nerd Nite number 18! Come out February 27th, grab a beer and settle in for the best 2 hours you’ll spend on a Wednesday! Scroll down to see talk descriptions….
Nerd Nite Baltimore (NNB) is part of an international community of Nerd Nites in over 90 cities around the world! This event combines imbibing and learning. Anyone with a passion can be a Nerd Nite speaker! Join us for a night of educational drinking!
Talks at Nerd Nite are 15- 20 minutes with a rollicking Q&A afterward. The barkeeps at De Kleine Duivel will keep your glasses full of delightful Belgian beer and spirits. (This is a 21 and over venue.)
Doors open at 6:30…event starts at 7:00pm. We only accept cash at the door. Door tix are $5.
We have a great line up for this month! ***Keep scrolling…****
Talk Descriptions in no particular order….
Talk #1: Speaker: Dr. Trisha Ashley. Title: Tiny Stellar Islands in a Big Old Universe
Space! Science! Galaxies are islands of stars, gas, and dark matter, the smallest of which are called dwarf galaxies. Astronomers are still trying to understand dwarf galaxies and what we can learn from them. Trisha likes to study what makes some swarf galaxies really good at making large amounts of stars. Trisha will tell you all about dwarf galaxies, how they compare in size to our very own Milky Way galaxy, and what makes them special!
Trisha Ashley is an astrophysicist who researches all types of galaxies including dwarf galaxies, early-type galaxies, and the Milky Way. She currently works at Space Telescope Science Institute as a postdoctoral fellow. she also co-hosts Astronomy on Tap Baltimore, which is coming to De Kleine Duivel on March 27th!
Talk #2: Speaker: Dr. Joel Green. Title: Virtual Reality: Not Just a Dystopian Nightmare!
The continuous hype since the early 1990s about virtual reality (VR) has generally been met with resigned eye-rolling (that gimmick will never go anywhere) or moral terror (humans will never move or interact with each other in real life again!). There is actually a nice middle ground: things have actually changed since the 90s, and real reality can still be cool (and integrated with the experience). I’ll talk about what’s changed, and the changes VR will bring to the way we learn in the near future.
Joel Green is project sicentist in the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope Science Insitute, which brings the Hubble Telescope’s wonders direct to Baltimore. Joel has written for and appeared in numerous public outreach, communications, and educational materials, most recently the National Geographic special on Hubble’s Amazing Universe, and PBS Nova’s special on Treasures of the Earth: Metals. He leads the content development for WebbVR, an immersive virtual universe for the science of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Talk #3: Speaker: Lee Campbell. Either “Grey’s Anatomy- a Scientists Perspective” or “Hate-watching Grey’s Anatomy- a Scientist Perspective”
Why are they shooting lazerbeams into a lump of tissue? What is inactivated HIV? A scientist breaks down a few scenes from the television series Grey’s Anatomy to set the record straight. Learn about the evolution of molecular and biological techniques, from basic science to clinical applications.
Lee is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute on Drug Abuse IRP in Baltimore. He likes playing piano, eating at fancy restaurants, and a good old fashioned.
Hey Baltimore Nerds! Welcome to our 17th installment of Nerd Nite! Come out January 16th, grab a beer and settle in for the best 2 hours you’ll spend on a Wednesday!
Nerd Nite Baltimore (NNB) is part of an international community of Nerd Nites in over 90 cities around the world! This event combines imbibing and learning.
Anyone with a passion can be a Nerd Nite speaker! Join us for a night of educational drinking! Nerd Nite Baltimore is a monthly event held at a local bar where information combines with fun. Talks at Nerd Nite are typically 20 minutes with a rollicking Q&A afterward. The barkeeps at De Kleine Duivel will keep your glasses full of delightful Belgian beer and spirits. (This is a 21 and over venue.) Doors open at 6:30…event starts at 7:00pm. We have a great line up for this month!
Talk descriptions below (in no particular order)
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‘Evidence’ by Renee F. Wilson
What is evidence? Is it something we know or something we just believe? This presentation aims to show people what proof and facts are, and just because you believe something doesn’t really mean it’s true. Does the release of a new Nick Cage movie cause people to drown by falling into a pool? Does eating more cheese lead to more death by entanglement in bed sheets? Maybe we’ll find out tonight, maybe not.
Renee is a Midwestern girl who has always loved science and has spent most of her professional career in the pursuit of evidence. She has been with the Evidence-based Practice Center for almost 15 years. Prior to this she worked as the managing editor of a medical journal, an environmental consultant, and was a graduate student.
‘Rhetoric’ by Cat Aboudara
Cat was going to be a tiger trainer and was pursuing Natural Resources & Conservation Studies at UC Berkeley as an undergraduate when she signed up for a Rhetoric class on a lark. She was hooked at mapping out her first syllogism (which will be explained!). Rhetoric which is considered a dead art, began 2500 years ago as the study of the forms of communication and argument essential to public, political and legal life in Ancient Greece. No one really knows what it is anymore but learning it gives a person some impressive communication superpowers as well as taking them down some totally interesting rabbit holes which Cat will attest to in this ode to Rhetoric.
Cat Aboudara has overseen adult programs that posit learning through play for over a decade in science centers across the country and has had such fun working with the likes of scientists, astronauts, inventors, jungles cats, comedians, and robots. She also moonlighted as the Nerd Nite DC Boss even though she had to trek down from Philly for over a year to do it! She has retired from bossing in DC (and the commute) and is now the mentor boss of Nerd Nite Global.
‘The Power of Breakfast Sandwiches’ by Dr. Neil Bardhan
Need more be said?
Neil is a returning Nerd Nite speaker from the very first Nerd Nite Baltimore in January 2016 (on the effect of your nasal cavity on vowel pronunciation)! We’re happy to have him return every 3 years. Neil is a native of Corning, NY (of glass fame), has a Ph.D in cognitive science and psycholinguistics, and is currently Executive Director at Broad Street Review and Manager for Applied Storytelling at First Person Arts in Philadelphia.
Hey Baltimore Nerds! Welcome to our 16th installment of Nerd Nite! Come out November 7th, grab a beer and settle in for the best 2 hours you’ll spend on a Wednesday!
Nerd Nite Baltimore (NNB) is part of an international community of Nerd Nites in over 90 cities around the world! This event combines imbibing and learning. Anyone with a passion can be a Nerd Nite speaker! Join us for a night of educational drinking! Nerd Nite Baltimore is a bi-monthly event held at a local bar where information combines with fun.
Talks at Nerd Nite are typically 20 minutes with a rollicking Q&A afterward. The barkeeps at De Kleine Duivel will keep your glasses full of delightful Belgian beer and spirits. (This is a 21 and over venue.) Doors open at 6:30…event starts at 7:00pm. We have a great line up for this month!
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Talk: Why are Rivers So damn Hard to Monitor?
By: Alex Rittle
Alex is a PhD student in geography, but gets lost frequently. He doesn’t care about your Meyers-Briggs score, but his personality falls somewehere between LMAO and WTF.
About talk: We can send rockets to Mars and back and we can receive pizza by sending a text to Dominoes, but we cannot successfully map the river bottom in a useful way. Rivers are everywhere yet we can’t continually measure what’s in them. We’ll explore why.
Talk: PTSD and Fear: Getting past the Demons
By: Jaye Ferrone
Jaye is a Nerd Nite Co-Boss, Veteran, Barber, Translator, vintage lover and cat lady.
Know a Veteran or someone with PTSD but aren’t quite sure what to say to them? What IS PTSD and how does it manifest? Jaye will explore the world of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the ways it affects the body and braine, and how different people cope. Expect some funny stories about her time n the military and how she got past the demons.
Talk: Living in a Multilingual Society
By: Eleanor Brasfield
I lived in a somewhat small, little-known country for over three years. The languages there taught me almost as much as the people.
Eleanor Brasfield is mildly obsessive when it comes to learning of all kinds. She can often be overheard babbling (or singing) about history, culture, language, politics, and music.
Baltimore Nerds Asssemmmbleee! School is back in sesh and so are we. Come out to De Kleine Duivel, we’re 15 again!! Siiike, but seriously, come out Tuesday September 18th for our 15th installment of Nerd Nite Baltimore! We’re going to journey to the Milky Way and learn about why everyone should be drawing! We have a third speaker, we think, it’s a secret…even to us! Doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7ish. Be there and be square.
Talks listed below, Disclaimer: Order of talks may change. As always, we appreciate your flexibility and ongoing support! Nerd Nite Baltimore (NNB) is part of an international community of Nerd Nites in over 90 cities around the world! This event combines imbibing and learning. Anyone with a passion can be a Nerd Nite speaker! Join us for a night of educational drinking! Nerd Nite Baltimore is a bi-monthly event held at a local bar where information combines with fun.
Talks at Nerd Nite are typically 20 minutes with a rollicking Q&A afterward. The barkeeps at De Kleine Duivel will keep your glasses full of delightful Belgian beer and spirits. (This is a 21 and over venue.) Doors open at 6:30ish…event starts at 7:00pm. See below for information about the talks!
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Talk #1: “Gazing Long Into the Abyss: A journey to the center of the Milky Way” By: Dr. Chris Britt
Summary: We’ll adventure through our Galaxy, exploring the Milky Way through different kinds of light. At the center of our Galaxy, we’ll find a supermassive black hole and find out how we can find and examine something that is, by definition, invisible.
Bio: Chris Britt was born in Louisville, KY, got his PhD from Louisiana State University, now works in Baltimore at the Space Telescope Science Institute, and will crush all challengers in Super MarioKart for the SNES.
Talk #2: Draw it out! by Ann Feild — It being whatever thought, observation, plan, recollection, or pent-up emotion you might have.
I believe everyone can draw. Whether or not the drawing is deemed “good” or “bad” is academic. Most of us draw with gusto as toddlers and a bit beyond but get stymied by others’ judgments. It feels great just to take pen — or brush, or spraycan — in hand and let loose! Who’s judging? And who cares?! You may learn a lot about yourself if you draw for just a few minutes every day.
Bio: Ann Feild is a veteran artist and graphic designer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, and an afficionado of the Universe.
Talk #3: Roy Prouty Mystery Talk
Bio: Roy Prouty joins the Nerd Nite Baltimore bosses team with an inaugural surprise talk! Roy directs the UMBC Observatory and mostly just likes hearing himself talk. He’s working toward his PhD in Computer Science in projects concerning machine learning applications to geoscience and astronomy tasks in collaboration with GSFC and APL.
Heyy, it’s us again. Get ready for Nerd Nite Baltimore 14 next Tuesday, March 15th! NNB brings you another month of diverse talks! From learning how not to get sued posting videos you found on the internet to your social media account to finding out just how many numbers there are and finally some other sciencey topic that will be revealed soon! Come out, grab a beer and settle in for the best 2 hours you’ll spend on a Tuesday!
Talks listed below, Disclaimer: Order of talks may change. As always, we appreciate your flexibility and ongoing support! Nerd Nite Baltimore (NNB) is part of an international community of Nerd Nites in over 90 cities around the world! This event combines imbibing and learning. Anyone with a passion can be a Nerd Nite speaker! Join us for a night of educational drinking! Nerd Nite Baltimore is a bi-monthly event held at a local bar where information combines with fun.
Talks at Nerd Nite are typically 20 minutes with a rollicking Q&A afterward. The barkeeps at De Kleine Duivel will keep your glasses full of delightful Belgian beer and spirits. (This is a 21 and over venue.) Doors open at 6:30ish…event starts at 7:00pm. We have a great line up for this month!
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Talk: Where is Everybody?
By: Jesse Lorentson and Roy Prouty
Jesse Lorentson likes mathematics, planateria and pizza, but he’s no longer involved with any of them. Jesse has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mathematics.
Roy Prouty directs the UMBC Observatory and mostly just likes hearing himself talk. He’s working toward his PhD in Computer Science in projects concerning machine learning applicatins to geoscience and astronomy tasks in collaboration with GSFC and APL.
About: When you look up at the night sky, for every star you see, there are one million additional stars in our galaxy. Astronomers believe that there is at least one planet per star. With all these planets, surely there must be life out there in our galaxy, right?
So then where is everybody?
Join us for a discussion of the Fermi Paradox, the Drake Equation, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and we’ll try to figure it out.
Talk: Copyright and You: A Primer So You (and Your Pet Monkey) Don’t Get Sued
By: Emma Raviv
Emma Raviv is a DC native and, until very recently, an Attorney-Advisor in the Ringer Honors Program at the United States Copyright Office. Before that, she worked at a big law firm in New York fighting some good intellectual property fights in court on behalf of clients in the fitness, advertising, gaming, and cruise industries. She went to Harvard Law (though is not blonde, legally), and spends her free time running, eating, and making her cats chase a laser pointer.
About: SIck of living under a cloud of impending lawsuit just because you’re tryna do you on the internet? Ugh, aren’t we all? Copyright is hard, and technology has made it harder. Luckily, Emma knows some things and is here to blow up some myths and tell some hard truths about the way the law works. Monkeys, Facebook disclaimers, and basketball video games will be covered, among other things. Please note that this talk doesn’t mean you and she have any kind of attorney-client relationship, which is a thing she has to say per other legal rules which she will not be covering in this talk (thank god — unlike copyright, those rules are boring).
Talk: A brief history of diagnosing high blood pressure: from the Yellow Emperor of China to snake oil smartphone apps.
By: Dr. Romsai “Tony” Boonyasai, MD, MPH
Dr. Romsai Tony Boonyasai is a general internal medicine physician and an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is an expert on implementing and evaluating chronic disease improvement programs. He has particular expertise in building programs for improving hypertension control in low-resource settings and for ensuring safe transitions between hospitals and community-based settings.
About: Hypertension is the most common cause of preventable heart attacks and strokes worldwide. Yet people with this condition often do not recognize they have it because they don’t have symptoms. This talk will describe the evolution of technologies that let a person know when their blood pressure is too high.
Join us Tuesday, March 27th for Nerd Nite Baltimore Lucky #13! We have another great line up, from international health philanthropy to space battles and robots, because, why not?! Come out, grab a beer and settle in for the best 2 hours you’ll spend on a Tuesday!
Talks listed below, Disclaimer: Order of talks may change. As always, we appreciate your flexibility and ongoing support!
Nerd Nite Baltimore (NNB) is part of an international community of Nerd Nites in over 90 cities around the world! This event combines imbibing and learning. Anyone with a passion can be a Nerd Nite speaker! Join us for a night of educational drinking! Nerd Nite Baltimore is a bi-monthly event held at a local bar where information combines with fun.
Talks at Nerd Nite are typically 20 minutes with a rollicking Q&A afterward. The barkeeps at De Kleine Duivel will keep your glasses full of delightful Belgian beer and spirits. (This is a 21 and over venue.) Doors open at 6:30ish…event starts at 7:00pm We have a great line up for this month!
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Talk: “Create your own lane”
By: Robin Baker, OTR
Robin F. Baker, is a social entrepreneur, international occupational therapist, consultant and catalyst pursuing solutions to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities. Robin is the founder and executive director of GoTHERAPY, a social enterprise committed to improving stroke survivors and persons with disabilities access to rehabilitation services in low to middle resource countries. Robin was recently recognized as the 2017 Maryland Daily Record’s “Very Important Professional, Successful by 40” for her work and commitment to global health and rehabilitation.
About: Merging ones passion with their purpose and confidently pursuing their deams even if the road hasn’t been paved.
Talk: “The Physics of Space Battles”
By: Dr. Gautham Narayan
Gautham Narayan is the Lasker Fellow at Space Telescope and a former organizer of Astronomy-on-Tap in Tucon, AZ. He studies how things go boom, things in the process of going boom, and what happens after things have gone boom. He decided very early on that the bigger the boom, the better the boom! Therefore he went in for the biggest booms in the Universe – supernovae and sci-fi!
About: BLACK HOLES DEVOURING SPACESHIPS! GIANT SPACE LASERS! TESLAs IN SPACE! Who doesn’t love them? Well, as long as you are on the right end… or you aren’t being asked to build one, because it turns out that’s hard. Poke at some of sci-fi’s biggest tropes, and the learn about the cool science that is actually possible.
Ring in the new year, Nerd Nite style! Join us Tuesday, January 16th for Nerd Nite Baltimore 12. We’re getting craaazy this month! This January we bring you, not only, two great talks, but one musical/comedic performance by Sarah Stardust and Baltimore #popscope will be set up outside the pub for viewing the night sky! Bring your legwarmers and ear-muffs, be there and be square!
Details below, disclaimer: order of talks may change. As always, we appreciate your flexibility and ongoing support!
Nerd Nite Baltimore (NNB) is part of an international community of Nerd Nites in over 90 cities around the world! This event combines imbibing and learning. Anyone with a passion can be a Nerd Nite speaker! Join us for a night of educational drinking! Nerd Nite Baltimore is a bi-monthly event held at a local bar where information combines with fun.
Talks at Nerd Nite are typically 20 minutes with a rollicking Q&A afterward. The barkeeps at De Kleine Duivel will keep your glasses full of delightful Belgian beer and spirits. (This is a 21 and over venue.) Doors open at 6:30ish…event starts at 7:00pm We have a great line up for this month!
Topic #1
Title: Bringing you evidence-based practice for management of MS symptoms using FES (functional electrical stimulation) techonology.
By: Jennifer Sahm, PT, DPT and Adwoa Bonsra, PT, DPT
Summary: Sit back and learn about what multiple sclerosis is and the electrifying science behind the using functional electrical stimulation for long-term management: A Tale of Two Physical Therapists’ in the field.
Jennifer Sahm is not only a co-boss of Nerd Nite Baltimore, by day she’s a neurologic physical therapist! Jennifer Sahm and Adwoa Bonsra are physical therapists with over 16 years’ combined experience working with patients with neurologic and orthopedic conditions. Jennifer and Adwoa work at the International Neurorehabilitation Institute, a state-of-the-are rehab facility, in Lutherville, MD. Jennifer received her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2009. Adwoa received her Doctor of Physical therapy degree from the University of Maryland in 2006.
The International Neurorehabilitation Institute is founded by Johns Hopkins neurologist, Daniel Becker, MD. INI is one of the nation’s only freestanding, independent rehabilitation practices for adults and children suffering from paralysis. We see patients who have spinal cord damage from multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis and traumatic injury. INI specializes in activity based restorative therapies (ABRT) including functional electrical stimulation. These interventions are based on the fact that the injured nervous system requires optimal levels of activity in order to regenerate. Individualized rehabilitation programs are tailored for our patients needs’, enabling them to follow these programs at home as well.
Topic #2: Musical Performance by Sarah Stardust!
Sarah Stardust is a musical science comedian based in Washington, D.C. Favorable mentions can be found by WAMU, ‘I F*cking Love Space,’ and D.C.’s ‘Hometown Sounds’. The Sarah Stardust EP is available now on your favorite download or streaming platform.
Topic #3
Title: The Story of the Late Persian Empire as told by Imperial Rock Reliefs
By: Parviz Ghavamian
Bio: I’m as associate professor of astrophysics at Towson University, and I study the physics of exploding stars. When I’m not doing that, I like to read, listen to classical music, play disc golf and of course read up on ancient history. I started an ancient coin collection featuring many of the kings I’m discussing at this talk! (I will probably bring my coin collection and let people examine them as long as no one loses any!)
Talk: In the west we know nothing about Persia before the Iranian revolution of 1979. The Persian Empire rose again after their destruction at the hands of Alexander the Great in 331 BC. Known as the Sassanian Empire, it became an equal superpower in 640 A.D. We primarily know their history not through written sources, but via their coinage and imperial rock reliefs. I’ll be talking about that tonight!
“Baltimore #popscope will be here, but wait, what is #popscope?
About: #popscope = pop-up telescope!
Ariel Hicks co-leads the Baltimore chapter of #popscope that was launched by Viva Dadwal and Michael O’Shea in September 2014. Bringing Baltimore together by public astronomy. #popscope will be set up outside of the pub for your night sky viewing pleasure!
#Popscope is an urban movement that aims to reconnect diverse communities to the night sky and to each other by hosting free, “pop-up” astronomy nights in public spaces.”
Website: www.popscope.org
Twitter: @bmorepopscope
Instagram: @bmorepopscope
YouTube: Baltimore #popscope”
Come get nerdy with us! Tuesday, November 7th for Nerd Nite Baltimore Eleven. We have three great speakers who will no doubt light up the belgian beer hall AND they just all happen to be amazingly talented and smart women. Come sip and learn and walk away with new brain wrinkle from all this new knowledge! Details below, disclaimer: order of talks may change.
Be there and be square! Nerd Nite Baltimore (NNB) is part of an international community of Nerd Nites in over 90 cities around the world! This event combines imbibing and learning. Anyone with a passion can be a Nerd Nite speaker! Join us for a night of educational drinking! Nerd Nite Baltimore is a bi-monthly event held at a local bar where information combines with fun.
Talks at Nerd Nite are typically 20 minutes with a rollicking Q&A afterward. The barkeeps at De Kleine Duivel will keep your glasses full of delightful Belgian beer and spirits. (This is a 21 and over venue.) Doors open at 6:30ish…event starts at 7:00pm We have a great line up for this month!
Talk #1:
PowerPoint is Boring: Engaging the Adult Learner
Talk Summary: Have you ever sat through a meeting and thought, this could be an email? Do you have to present to coworkers, and get nervous or ramble? Bring a charged phone & get ready to interact with activities and discussion on how to engage the adult learner, regardless of the content. Strategies for overcoming nerves, creating meaningful learning experiences, and creating presentations that wow will be some of the items discussed.
Bio: Irene Bal is a lecturer in Educational Technology at Loyola University Maryland. Prior to joining the faculty at Loyola, Irene worked in a school district in Columbia, SC as an instructional technology coach, where she presented and worked with adults engaging them in integrating technology in their work & life. She has also presented at many state, regional, national, and international conferences, chats, and webinars on blended learning, hour of code, creating technology events, grant writing, engagement in professional development, and Makerspaces.
Talk #2
Scientific Outreach…in Saudi Arabia by Dr. Alex Lockwood
The life and work of a single Western woman in an Arab country with a slowly developing knowledge economy. Alex Lockwood is a planetary scientist turned science communicator, who spent 2 years working in the Middle East before moving back to the US to support the James Webb Space Telescope.
Talk #3:
Using What Works to Improve Youth Well-being, Building Stronger Communities and Support Families
Presented by: Jessie Watrous and colleague
Jessie Watrous is the Director of Evidence Based Practice at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work, Institute for Innovation and Implementation where she is assisting Maryland child welfare and juvenile agencies to improve practice and strengthen their service array. She previously worked at Annie E. Casey Foundation as a Senior Associate on the Evidence-Based Practice Team. At Annie E. Casey, she was a leader in the development of an initiative to improve community-level child well-being, Evidence2Success. She also consulted with state child welfare leaders on system reforms.
Watrous holds a master’s degree in public affairs from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, where she concentrated on program evaluation and nonprofit management.