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12:00am EDT

LN2 After Hours Ice Cream Food Room 1017Sarah Elkins (she) • Elizabeth Basala • Amy Castner • Jen Hamilton • Lewis Reynolds • Phil Salkie

6:45am EDT

ADDITION errata: Watch the NASA Mars InSight Launch LIVE! Algonquin BKelly

9:00am EDT

Firefly Escape Room Room 321Alex Drummer Harry Potter Escape Room Room 317Alex Drummer Make and Take SF/Fantasy Cards DIY Room 323Anderyn The Idiots Guide to Microtransactions Portage AuditoriumPhil Nocerini • Dave Phillips • Bob Waltenspiel • Ian the Well-Informed CANCELLED errata: Play is Learning: How Kids Develop and Learn Through Play Charlevoix BJanet Gocay We Want Audio Feedback! (Just Not in Our Recordings) BaldwinJohn Bruske Crispy Superheros Charlevoix ADoug MacRae • Jessica Roland ROOM CHANGE errata: Asteroids and Planetary Defense Charlevoix BBob Trembley Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Algonquin BDr. Kristine Larsen • Jeff MacLeod • Kevin O'Brien BSD Operating Systems in 2018 EMC IIIMichael W. Lucas Build GUIs for Raspberry Pi with Python and Glade NicoletTerry Howald Evolving Enterprises with Collaborative Intelligence EMC VJustin Coven Ph. D. Getting Started with CryptoCurrencies EMC ITed Preston Godzilla Guide to Virtual Machines EMC IIClif Flynt Penguicon 5K Algonquin Foyer & OutsideDaniel Dugan Time Management for Creative People HamlinHillary Rettig Experiment in Collaborative Art (2nd year) Hackerspace Room 328Stacy Louis/Saltygirl

10:00am EDT

Firefly Escape Room Room 321Alex Drummer Harry Potter Escape Room Room 317Alex Drummer Martial Arts and Magic in Chinese Anime EMC IIIJustin Coven Ph. D. Cosplay Props: 3D Printing Step by Step BaldwinZophael Ray Careers in the Board Gaming Industry Algonquin C/DNemo Rathwald • Ian Stedman • Trish Stedman • David Whitcher DIY Marketing with What You Already Have NicoletToni Conn Parenting Across The Spectrum Charlevoix AJanet Gocay • Richard Langan • Niki MacRae • Doug MacRae • Chris Roland • Jessica Roland What is Social Engineering? Charlevoix BKim Burton Mixing a Live Concert EMC IVScott Helmke Feline Nutrition 101 EMC VCassandra Morgan Make a Harry Potter Starfinder! DIY Room 323Dr. Kristine Larsen DIY IoT EMC IDave Putz • Connie Sieh Intro to the Linux Shell EMC IIClif Flynt Mapping User Needs: What Cartography Can Teach Us About Agile Roadmaps Hackerspace Room 328Jonathon Baugh Network CTF Charlevoix C3POMerit Open Computer Lab Charlevoix CDaniel Dugan Welcome to the World of Drones Algonquin BJason Rutherford Virtual Range Algonquin AStu Chisholm • Rob Reed LN2 Purple Haze Ice Cream Food Room 1017Sarah Elkins (she) • Elizabeth Basala • Amy Castner • Jen Hamilton • Ariel Landau • Lewis Reynolds • Phil Salkie Wonder Woman (2017) Movie Portage Auditorium L.M.N. Artemis - Bridge simulator Room 311Kelly

11:00am EDT

Firefly Escape Room Room 321Alex Drummer Harry Potter Escape Room Room 317Alex Drummer Strong Women in Anime Charlevoix BCassy Sinke • Christine Sunu • Claire Winn Needle Felting 101 DIY Room 323Bagel Garrison • Kelly Vanderwell Success With Kickstarter/Crowdfunding and Your Next Project EMC IIIMike Madigan Board Game Design: Rules and Development Algonquin C/DNemo Rathwald • Ian Stedman • David Whitcher Fire of Eidolon TC's Table ATrish Stedman hardback TC's Table DCheryl Orosz Geeky Speed Friending Charlevoix ACatrice Thornton The Dating Corollary EMC IIDave Phillips • Bob Waltenspiel Creating Three Dimensional Characters: Avoiding Cardboard Characters BaldwinClarence • JD DeLuzio • Sarah Hans • Christian Klaver • Steven Lake No Hero Wants to Save the World NicoletAlex Kourvo The Evolution of the Star Wars Franchise HamlinLady Ana • Professor X Career Navigation Strategies: Take Charge of Your Life Algonquin BMark Haynes • Douglas Johnson F-Stops to the Zone System EMC IVKevin Nickerson IT and Leadership EMC VJustin Coven Ph. D. Network CTF Charlevoix C3POMerit Open Controlled Practice for Drones Parking GarageKelly Programming Games with PyGame Charlevoix CJay Turning Materials Science Fiction into Science Fact EMC IKaren Burnham dreamchaser TC's Table JPete Petrusha Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game TC's Table FKelly • Kevin Wozniak Crash Course in Super Basic Electronics: What you need to get you started Hackerspace Room 328Karen Corbeill Retro Gaming MontcalmEd Fleece

12:00pm EDT

Wigs 101 HamlinZophael Ray Beginner Home Repair EMC IIIChris DeBruyn • William E McCormick Incoming Transmission TC's Table BTrish Stedman Tokaido TC's Table CDenise Woods "....And in Flew Enza" Algonquin BMari Brighe • JD DeLuzio • Dr. Kristine Larsen • Janea Schimmel Author Reading with Michael Cieslak and Steven Lake Writer's Block Reading Room 305Kelly Editing Your Prose EMC VClif Flynt How to Care for Your Writer BaldwinClarence • Cassandra Morgan • Wayne Pedersen • Baize White Writing Short: Creating the Impactful Short Story Charlevoix AVirtual -Jean Davis • Sarah Hans • Ericka Kahler • Geralyn Lance • Ken McGregor • Lucy A Snyder Guest What? NicoletJohn Bruske • Scott (Toaden) Maiale • Dave Phillips Relic Hunting 101 EMC IPatrick Allen ERRATA MOVED OUTSIDE: Tesla Model S Show Algonquin Foyer & OutsidePhil Salkie Large Scale SSH: Keys and Certificates EMC IIMichael W. Lucas Let's Build Something to Change the World Charlevoix CDaniel Dugan • KentimusReximus Lets Discuss Net Neutrality Charlevoix BCharles Severance • Kate Vajda • Johnny Xmas Network CTF Charlevoix C3POMerit Robot Pets of the Future Algonquin C/DChristine Sunu Truths, Half-truths and Sweet, Sweet Lies of Software Consulting EMC IVMark Haynes • Douglas Johnson Needle Felting 201 DIY Room 323Liz "Smoothie" DeBruyn Stanky Cheeses and Why You Should Love Them Food Room 1017Maggie Maiville • Shannon Marshall Detroit Drone Races Parking GarageKelly

1:00pm EDT

Firefly Escape Room Room 321Alex Drummer Harry Potter Escape Room Room 317Alex Drummer Fun with Origami EMC IIIJanet Gocay Board Game Design: Graphic Design Algonquin C/DNemo Rathwald • Ian Stedman • David Whitcher Overworld TC's Table ATrish Stedman Author Reading with Leslie Gulvas and Clarence Young Writer's Block Reading Room 305Kelly Feminism and Comics NicoletDenise Woods Writing Excuses Podcast Charlevoix BAmal El-Mohtar • Mary Robinette Kowal • Mary Anne Mohanraj Writing Long: Creating the Page Turner Charlevoix AChristine Daigle • Steven Lake • Diana Kathryn Plopa • Claire Winn Independent Podcasting: How to Make a Name for Yourself HamlinJohn Bruske • Dave Phillips Quantum Craft EMC VStanley Nunn The Science of Beekeeping BaldwinJen Haeger What About the Sun? and The Michigan Meteorite EMC IBob Trembley 50 Minutes: What Can We Build? Charlevoix CGibson Nichols Character Sheet Personas: A Gamers Guide to Understanding your Users in Software Hackerspace Room 328Jonathon Baugh Monero: The Open Source Anonymous Cryptocurrency EMC IVJeffrey Quesnelle • Johnny Xmas Network CTF Charlevoix C3POMerit Senior Sysadmin Panel Algonquin BSarah Elkins (she) • Nicholas Brenckle • Michael W. Lucas • Kate Vajda Introduction to Machine Knitting EMC IIBrenda Fish Galaxy Quest (1999) Movie Portage Auditorium Penguicon Robo-Melee Algonquin ADaniel Dugan

2:00pm EDT

Firefly Escape Room Room 321Alex Drummer Harry Potter Escape Room Room 317Alex Drummer Stone Soup Cosplay Hackerspace Room 328 Make and Take SF/Fantasy Cards DIY Room 323Anderyn Is that a chopstick in your pocket, or are you just happy sashimi? Food Room 1017Nuri Gocay Board Game Design: Prototyping and Presenting to Publishers Algonquin C/DNemo Rathwald • Ian Stedman • David Whitcher Darkrock Ventures TC's Table BTrish Stedman Pai Sho TC's Table CDana Nelson Dealing with the Paranormal Charlevoix AShetan Noir Homelessness: Where do we go from here Part 2 Charlevoix BJohn Daniels • Cathy Grazar • Taurean Thomas • Ian the Well-Informed Pandemic in Real Life: Influenza 1918 and 2018 EMC VJen Hamilton Productive Conversations: How to Talk it out Without Derailing HamlinMiranda Falcon • Ted Preston Author Reading with Emmy Jackson and Lucy A. Snyder Writer's Block Reading Room 305Kelly Teams & Types NicoletAmal El-Mohtar • Paul Kemner • Christian Klaver • Steven Lake • Mary Anne Mohanraj • Cassandra Morgan Podcasting 101 EMC IDave Phillips • Bob Waltenspiel • Baize White Telescope Observing - The Sun Algonquin Foyer & OutsideBob Trembley All About Passwords Charlevoix CKim Burton Gender & Artificial Intelligence EMC IVMeg Green Network CTF Charlevoix C3POMerit The IT Road Warrior: The Art of Staying Mobile EMC IIIMark Haynes • Douglas Johnson The Narrative Art of Agile Stories BaldwinJer Lance Women in Tech Algonquin BSue Blair • Gail Christopherson • Zena Jasenak Race for the galaxy TC's Table DMike Dudash

3:00pm EDT

Firefly Escape Room Room 321Alex Drummer Harry Potter Escape Room Room 317Alex Drummer Will It Wasteland? Building Real-World Vehicles for an Imaginary Apocalypse Algonquin Foyer & OutsideEmmy Jackson Pre-judging for COSPLAY CONTEST Algonquin C/DClaire Winn Dadaism and Collage DIY Room 323Sam Letvin Vegan Cheese Tasting Food Room 1017Amy Wilkins • Amy Wright Fire of Eidolon TC's Table ATrish Stedman Code of Conduct: Balancing Between Helpful and Toxic EMC IMari Brighe • Geralyn Lance • Mary Anne Mohanraj • April Nance • Mark Oshiro • Ted Preston LGBTQ Labor History: The Importance of Undoing Heteronormative History Charlevoix BJamie McQuaid Author Reading with Drayton Alan and Clif Flynt Writer's Block Reading Room 305Kelly Practical Regency Charlevoix AMary Robinette Kowal Writing Groups NicoletNicole E. Castle • Carol Flynt • Sarah Hans • Ericka Kahler • Michael W. Lucas Setting Up a Video Podcast Portage AuditoriumScott (Toaden) Maiale • William E McCormick • Bradleigh Wooten You Should Read This Comic HamlinBluRaven C. Houvener Ask an Astronomer Algonquin BDr. Kristine Larsen • Jeff MacLeod • Curtis Potterveld • Bob Trembley Containers 101: Docker and Beyond EMC IIIMichael McCune How to go from Bootcamp to IT Badass BaldwinErin Bergman • Christie Bertie • Jessica Roland Network CTF Charlevoix C3POMerit Regex for Everyone: Bend Text to Your Whim EMC VHenry Baughman The Case of the Monster User Story That Ate Sheboygan EMC IVMark Haynes • Douglas Johnson Hacking a Brother KH-910 Knitting Machine with AYAB EMC IIBrenda Fish Welcome to CircuitPython! Charlevoix CKattni Rembor

4:00pm EDT

Firefly Escape Room Room 321Alex Drummer Harry Potter Escape Room Room 317Alex Drummer Offbeat Anime Algonquin BPaul Kemner COSPLAY CONTEST Algonquin C/DNuri Gocay • Mary Robinette Kowal • Ian Stedman • Claire Winn Between two cities TC's Table DMike Dudash Incoming Transmission TC's Table BTrish Stedman 10 Commandments of Networking NicoletDave Phillips • Bob Waltenspiel Better Ways to Do Good HamlinIla Coltas • Elizabeth Gibbons • Michael McAtee • Deanna Tartaglia Reclaiming Our History:Let’s Hear it for the ‘Losers’ Charlevoix ADr. Kristine Larsen • Jennifer Matthews • Jamie McQuaid Whose Geek Are You Anyway? BaldwinDerek Why No One Swipes Right: Personal Profile Writing 101 MontcalmMaggie Maiville • Shannon Marshall Author Reading with Michael W. Lucas and Vik K. Walker Writer's Block Reading Room 305Kelly Media Litter Sandwich Interviews: Mark Oshiro Portage AuditoriumScott (Toaden) Maiale • William E McCormick • Mark Oshiro • Bradleigh Wooten Turning Newsletters into Collaborative Intelligence EMC IVJustin Coven Ph. D. Introduction to the TIC-80 Fantasy Computer EMC ICraig Maloney (he/him/coffee?) Muddling Through The Middle Bits: What Comes After Junior and Before Senior EMC VAnne Cahalan Network CTF Charlevoix C3POMerit Tesla Model S Show-And-Tell Charlevoix BPhil Salkie What is Kubernetes and Why Should You Care? EMC IIIMichael McCune Cross Stitching 101 DIY Room 323Anna Carey • Bridget Ferrigan dreamchaser TC's Table JPete Petrusha Terraforming Mars with Venus Next expansion. TC's Table GSam Orosz Upgrade Your Badge with All Hands Active! Hackerspace Room 328AHA All Hands Active • Nathan Yost

5:00pm EDT

Firefly Escape Room Room 321Alex Drummer Harry Potter Escape Room Room 317Alex Drummer DIY Electric Car Edition Portage AuditoriumChad Sinke Overworld TC's Table ATrish Stedman Like Penguicon, But With More Fire: Burner Culture MontcalmNuri Gocay • JZer • Scott Kennedy. • Bryan Kostoff • April Nance Meditation 101 BaldwinShetan Noir • Catrice Thornton The Accidental Entrepreneur NicoletDave Phillips • Bob Waltenspiel Author Reading with Cate Caldwell and Nicole Castle Writer's Block Reading Room 305Kelly Independent Book Stores HamlinGene Alloway • Dan Chilsom • Diana Kathryn Plopa DC vs Marvel, The Saga Continues. Algonquin BLady Ana • John Bruske • JD DeLuzio • Professor X The Magicians: BOF Charlevoix B Alternative (and Standard) Physics Spectrum Charlevoix AJustin Coven Ph. D. Detroit Drone Races: Awards Ceremony Parking GarageKelly Getting to Done Faster: Working Small EMC VClay Dowling Network CTF Charlevoix C3POMerit Open Source Video Editing Workflow on Linux EMC IITom Lawrence Pen Testing Open Source Tools of the Trade EMC IKate Vajda Robot Petting Zoo! Algonquin C/DChristine Sunu Using Scrum and Agile Techniques to Hack Your Life EMC IVMark Haynes • Ericka Kahler Engineer's guide to self defense Algonquin ADerek Black Butler Wonderland Tea Party Food Room 1017Myla Riffle • A. Carina Spears • Star Stramel Beauty Basics 101: What the hell is all this s**t anyway? EMC IIIAnneliese Freiny Build Your Second Mobile App Charlevoix CAnne Cahalan

6:00pm EDT

Firefly Escape Room Room 321Alex Drummer Harry Potter Escape Room Room 317Alex Drummer Marvelous Magical Girls NicoletPaul Kemner • Christine Sunu So you want to learn to sew your own costumes (or other clothing)? MontcalmSharon B. • RK Grimm • Jennifer Skwarski From Trash to Tunes EMC IICraig Hibbard Learn to Hand Embroider DIY Room 323Janet Gocay ADDITION errata: Author Reading with Brian James Writer's Block Reading Room 305Kelly Grammar and the Geek BaldwinCassandra Morgan • Wayne Pedersen Subtext: What is the Story Really About? Charlevoix AClarence • Ericka Kahler • Steven Lake • David Erik Nelson • Janea Schimmel Writing Productivity Algonquin BMichael W. Lucas • Amal El-Mohtar • Mary Robinette Kowal • Mary Anne Mohanraj • Mark Oshiro Agile: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly HamlinMark Haynes • Douglas Johnson Computational Social Science EMC IEdward L. Platt Diffie-Hellman-Merkle Key Exchange Charlevoix BKevin O'Brien KEYNOTE: Let's Pwn a Company! Algonquin C/DJohnny Xmas You've Got an Arduino: Now What? EMC VClay Dowling PPT Improv 2: Team Boogaloo EMC IVSarah Elkins (she) • Doctor Midnight Ghost in the Shell (1995) Movie Portage Auditorium ERRATA GAMING Ora et labora CHANGED TO Abyss TC's Table CMike Dudash The One Ring: Roleplaying Game TC's Table FKelly • Kevin Wozniak

7:00pm EDT

Fighting and Falling: Parkour, Ukemi and Other Stunts Algonquin ARaymond Guzzo • Jesse Harrison • Eric Zimmerman Firefly Escape Room Room 321Alex Drummer Harry Potter Escape Room Room 317Alex Drummer Cosplay Armor 101 DIY Room 323RK Grimm • Claire Winn A New Way to Play: Utilizing Gaming for Social Skills Charlevoix BJessy Humiston-Aman How to Collaborate With Friends Without Killing Each Other MontcalmOwen Bondono • Laura Cascos • Julia Marsh • Erika Wagner Critiquing Without Alienating the Writer BaldwinVirtual -Jean Davis • Sarah Hans • Geralyn Lance • Michael W. Lucas • Diana Kathryn Plopa Mark Oshiro Reads Charlevoix AMark Oshiro The Video Nasties: Horror, Censorship, & Videotape NicoletEd Fleece • Ken McGregor A Brief Intro to GNU Screen EMC Vmurph Own Your OS EMC IICraig Hibbard Python MultiProcessing Framework EMC IBradley Slavik Tech Interviewing Demystified Algonquin BNuri Gocay • Jer Lance • Dave Phillips Pengui-Party Get Ready With Us! EMC IIIAnneliese Freiny roborally TC's Table GCheryl Orosz Joyful Productivity: How to Overcome Procrastination and Perfectionism and Rediscover Your Prolific Self HamlinHillary Rettig The Smithee Awards Algonquin C/DJeannette Quirk

8:00pm EDT

Lightsaber Dueling 101 Algonquin AMike B • Shawn Wooley Five-Minute Anime: Face-Off EMC IVPaul Kemner • Star Stramel To Be or Not to Be... In Character EMC VRK Grimm Turn your favorite Coloring Book Page into Embroidery DIY Room 323Kim Ulrich Pemmican and Other Survival Solutions. Food Room 1017Bruce Price The Other Side of the Screen Charlevoix BEarl Corey Brown SPEAKER CHANGE errata: Imposter Syndrome: What it is and How to Handle it Algonquin BJohnny Xmas Author Reading with Merrie Haskell and Ken Schrader Writer's Block Reading Room 305Kelly Improv Flash Fiction MontcalmJD DeLuzio • Sarah Hans • Ken McGregor Making a Living as a Midlist Writer NicoletMichael W. Lucas • David Erik Nelson • Lucy A Snyder BOF: Black Panther BaldwinBagel Garrison • Kelly Vanderwell • Baize White Marveling at Comics: Where Do I Start? Charlevoix AJohn Bruske A Look Inside the Largest Python Course in the World EMC ICharles Severance Linux for your Grandmother EMC IICraig Hibbard LIVE PODCAST: "Getting Drunk with Shannon & Maggie" Portage AuditoriumMaggie Maiville • Shannon Marshall dreamchaser TC's Table JPete Petrusha Dune TC's Table DEric McGlohon

9:00pm EDT

BOF: Corrupting Vanilla Items for Kinky Purposes Hamlin Code Names : Deep Undercover TC's Table CTracie Leitner • Cheryl Orosz Dear Abby After Dark MontcalmAbby Electrostimulation for Sensual Pleasure NicoletLady Pain • Ryan Staten Rye, Wheat, and Corn Oh My! Food Room 1017Richard Langan • Jessica Roland BOF: Polyamory Unconference Charlevoix ADana Nelson • Catrice Thornton ERRATA CANCELLED Flow Session Algonquin AChloe Fields Flirting for Geeks EMC IVKristy Currier • Nuri Gocay • JZer • Scott Kennedy. Leading Questions Live EMC IYanni Kuznia • Jer Lance Living Poly: Lessons for Any Relationship EMC VMagic/Pearl • Meph • Jennifer Peters More Green for Less Green Algonquin BBeth Bondono • Owen Bondono Problematic Archetypes in Horror and How to Fix Them EMC IIMichael Emig • Jamie Maurer • Cassandra Morgan • Jena Osborne • Meghann Pardee Intro to OpenBSD EMC IIISTeve Andre Let's go to the (Dark) Mall! Charlevoix BJohnny Xmas Introduction to Knife Play BaldwinJim

10:00pm EDT

Anal Pleasure and Health Charlevoix BLady Pain • Ryan Staten Rope Basics in the Bedroom Algonquin ALogicalFlamingo The Taking of the HMS Virginity Algonquin BDuckman • Katherine Hatfield Nix • Jennifer Peters Tickling and Touch: Connecting Hands On Charlevoix ASarah Spirituality Untapped MontcalmDerek • Miranda Falcon Chuck Tingle Reading Portage AuditoriumMark Oshiro

11:00pm EDT

Kink Sharing Charlevoix ADuckman • Katherine Hatfield Nix • Jennifer Peters Wine and Cheese Tasting Food Room 1017Kelly Live Star Party NicoletDr. Kristine Larsen • Brian Ottum