Fostering the Nerds of Tomorrow
Spent the day volunteering at the Mass. Regional Finals for Destination ImagiNation today. (Each team needs to supply a volunteer, so a friend whose son was participating enlisted me.) I had only been peripherally aware of DI, but man does it seem like a neat program. It's a little hard to describe, but basically it's an extracurricular activity in which teams of kids work for several months to solve elaborate challenges. It's nice to know I had a (very small) hand in helping to foster a new crop of nerdlings (technically, I guess I was mostly dealing with nerdlettes, since I was working with the improv/theater arts challenge and it was almost exclusively girls). As a bonus, all volunteers are strongly encouraged to wear a silly hat. My hat collection is a shadow of its college-days glory, but this did give me a reason to wear the Knitted Froghat (thanks again, rsheslin!) in public for the first time in years.
In other geek news, Dexter is officially a huge TMBG fan. I had to go out and get Here Come the 123s today, because I have been playing the videos online for Dexter and he is now requesting the songs all the time ("Listen to 'number two' in car?"). And a new Terakian dork is born.
In other geek news, Dexter is officially a huge TMBG fan. I had to go out and get Here Come the 123s today, because I have been playing the videos online for Dexter and he is now requesting the songs all the time ("Listen to 'number two' in car?"). And a new Terakian dork is born.