2019/Activities

Delicacy exchange

Please bring food or small mementos of your region of North America, to exchange with others.

We will have a table in Stata for regional sweets and snacks. Be delicate!

Hands-on workshops

• Saturday evening: sockpuppet-making in the 4F Commons
• All day Saturday, Sunday, and Monday: Unconference + hacking in the 4F Commons
• Lightning talks: 1 session each, Sat and Sun.
• Monday lunch: snowy* calvinball outside the Stata amphitheater (BYO ball / gear)

Culture Crawl

• MFA workshops and tours
• Library and museum tours around Boston

Evening events

• Friday night: Waterworks Museum Steampunkery (7-11pm)
• Saturday night: MIT Museum7-11pm We have the museum to ourselves: explore exhibits with new friends! A cash bar and light snacks will be provided (dinner beforehand in the Stata Center). The museum is a short walk away from Staa.

NAW Awards brainstorming

• Editing + curation: Best writing, photos + video en route to the conference
• High score on Battlefield Wiki
• Sockmastery: most sockpuppets sewed during the conf
• Hack to victory: most credible hackathon project
• Ho, Ho, Hoax: reveal of the longest-lived hoax