Upcoming Programs - The Virtual World

I have been missing the opportunity to give talks on various history and technology topics.  But, times being what they are....

I've agreed to do a couple for the school district's adult community education program.  Well, that's not entirely correct.  I'm doing one and turning the other over to the video production unit of the high school FIRST Robotics team.  

My program is a virtual visit to the excavations at the Roman site of Vindolanda.  Days in the trenches, evenings in the pub.  About half serious.

The other program is going to be a history of robotics in our community.  Twenty years of silly and serious beginning with the ancient combat robot times and going up to the present day when the FIRST team builds things that I can marvel at even without understanding how they do it.  

My program is "in the can" as they say.  The high schoolers will probably go right down to deadline and come up with something way better.

Here's a link to the class brochure with sign up information.  If you need a break from the badly written and implausible script that is the year 2020, check it out.

Brochure

Their facebook page

Virtual presentations are different than the live versions.  Less fun in many ways but you do have a chance to tweak and tune them for the maximum level of polish.  These are in some ways easier than the real thing and in some ways harder.....you can't judge your audience when you can't see them, so changing course, spending more time on interesting parts, speeding up for the boring stuff...not possible.