Friday | 8:00 PM | 8:50 PM | Eating the Future | Keweenaw | Juicy nuggets of forward facing cuisine. Find out what your children will be eating on their way to Mars, create menu's for offworld diners or cash in on the next food craze. | Julie Lesnik (M), Ferrett Steinmetz, Sarah Lynn | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 11:00 AM | 11:50 AM | Using Biology Dangerously to Inspire Laughter and Thought | Manitou | Scientifically blowing your mind 3 times in 50 minutes! Panelists are limited to 10 minute discussions based on three topics that are tied to lighthearted videos on Biology. Come learn, have fun, ask questions and be inspired. | Julie Lesnik, Daniel Dugan | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 11:00 AM | 11:50 AM | Elementary Deduction: Sherlocking your way to success! | Petoskey | Inductive reasoning doesn't take a massive intellect - it's elementary, my dear. Learn how to amaze your friends and befuddle your enemies with tips and tricks from Aegis Consulting. | Stephanie Oz, Dan Merrill, Jen Maher, Dan McKay | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 12:00 PM | 12:50 PM | Citizen Science: Ornithologist | Isle Royale | Dissect owl pellets to discover what our local Strigiformes have been digesting. | Sarah Lynn (M), Daniel Dugan, Maria Dugan | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 12:00 PM | 1:50 PM | Solar Observations | Outside | Observe the Sun with Bob Trembley's telescope! You'll be able to see sunspots, prominences, and other surface features with 2 solar-safe telescopes, as well as discuss many other features of our nearest star with Bob. | Bob Trembley (M) | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 12:00 PM | 12:50 PM | Return to Jupiter: NASA's Juno Mission | Manitou | Last summer, a new spacecraft arrived at Jupiter. Juno's mission is to orbit the giant planet, studying its powerful magnetic field, its intense radiation belts, and the intricate interplay of particles and energies surging through nearby space. Bill Higgins reviews Juno's role in gathering more clues to the formation and evolution of Jupiter. | Bill Higgins | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 2:00 PM | 2:50 PM | Using Physics Dangerously to Inspire Laughter and Thought | Saugatuck | Scientifically blowing your mind 3 times in 50 minutes! Panelists are limited to 10 minute discussions based on three topics that are tied to lighthearted videos about Physics. Come learn, have fun, ask questions and be inspired. | Andrew Zimmerman Jones, Tobias Buckell, Daniel Dugan | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 3:00 PM | 3:50 PM | How to Make Babies with Science | Isle Royale | We will discussing current availability of genetic modification to create GMOs, designer babies and the advance of Grey Goo that will devour the planet. | Daniel Dugan (M), Jason Sanford, Julie Lesnik | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 3:00 PM | 3:50 PM | Knot Your Typical Confusion Science Panel | Saugatuck | Learn a variety of basic knots and how to use them for innocent and not-so-innocent purposes, from the experts from Aegis Consulting | Sal Sanfratello, Karilyn Warsinski, Morgan Stutler, Jen Nagle, Todd Nagle | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 4:00 PM | 4:50 PM | All Your Data Are Belong To Us | Petoskey | What is "the internet of things?" How smart do we really want our devices to be? What will society look like when whole systems of objects talk to each other to shape our lives? And who controls the data our things collect? | Daniel Dugan (M), Pablo Defendini, Andrea Phillips, Cassy S., Elise Kova | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 5:00 PM | 5:50 PM | Pimp Your Mars Rover | Manitou | What would a vehicle need to traverse the unforgiving surface of Mars? A perfect panel for those interested in engineering the next buggy. | Karen Burnham (M), Martin L. Shoemaker, Courtney Schafer, Bill Higgins | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 5:00 PM | 5:50 PM | A Panel Particularly Pertaining to Peculiar Particles | Petoskey | Speculation about multiple Higgs' Bosons, 750 gigaelectronvolt photon pairs and why it all matters. | Andrew Zimmerman Jones (M), Richard Herrell, David John Baker, Bill Higgins | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 6:00 PM | 6:50 PM | The Science and Art of Swordfighting | St. Clair | Aegis Consulting experts invite writers and enthusiasts to ask them pretty much anything they want about fighting and Western European martial arts. They will do our best to answer thoroughly and factually! | Sal Sanfratello, Karilyn Warsinski, Morgan Stutler, Jen Nagle, Todd Nagle | SCIENCE |
Saturday | 7:00 PM | 7:50 PM | What's Your Favorite Apocalypse? | Manitou | A discussion on scientific advances that might tip the world towards an apocalypse. | Kristine Smith (M), Andrew Zimmerman Jones, Julie Lesnik, Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Nichole E. Castle | SCIENCE |
Sunday | 10:00 AM | 10:50 AM | Citizen Scientist: Biomechanical Engineer | Isle Royale | The current state of the art in cybernetic body parts, plus a look into the future. | Daniel Dugan (M), Martin L. Shoemaker, Matthew Alan Thyer | SCIENCE |
Sunday | 12:00 PM | 12:50 PM | Rail Guns, Power Armor and Killer Robots | Keweenaw | How close are we to the military technology heralded in SciFi books? Experts will talk about what is on the horizon. | Kristine Smith (M), Tobias Buckell, Kameron Hurley, Karen Burnham | SCIENCE |