Skeptikids

So the best I could do was clearing my schedule for Thursday and Friday.   Maybe I will be able to spend a little time Saturday, but we’ll have to see.   It’s amazing how Your calendar seems to fill up right at the time that You want to do something, isn’t it?

Anyway, I am very happy to be going to Atlanta, even for a couple of days.  I’m especially glad to be attending  A Full Moon for Cancer Thursday night!  It is a Star Party in memory of Jeff Medkeff and benefit for the American Cancer Society.  The Star Party will be lead by Doctors Phil Plait and Pamela Gay! I expect it to be a lot of fun.

Friday,  I plan on attending several panels at Skeptrack, but I think I am most interested in the presentation on skeptical parenting! Go figure, eh?  If time permits, I hope to sit down with Kylie Sturgess and the rest of the Skeptic Zone folks and maybe do a short interview with them about Us and what we are planning here in the US over the next couple of years.

In fact, my one regret will be missing out on their Mystery Investigators Children’s Show presentation.  They have a developed kids outreach program and I would like to learn what I can from them and try to borrow some of their methods.  Alas, I can’t stay all weekend long and I will miss it.

Still glad to go and spread the Skeptikids message:  Science is a Verb!

- Jason

So no surprise here, we are moving back to Wordpress.

It’s just a better platform for our purposes.  We started out here, then we moved into something else, and now, in our effort to localize our Skeptikids program, we are moving to this central location, with links to the individual chapters as they come on line!

Bear with us, we are hands on, kid-centric people, but we are NOT web 2.0 savvy.  In fact, I don’t think the word “savvy” has ever been used to describe me.  Anywhoo, we are working on getting the main site back up, but most importantly, we have a structure in place to allow individual chapters to maintain their own local sites on Skeptikids.org, and to give them their own Skeptikids.org email, twitter etc.

2009 is still the Year of Science folks!  We plan to make an impact before its over!

- Jason