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ARR! Come join the Nearly Useless Entertainment Team as they host the first ever Penguicon Escape Room. You and a crew of ye friends will get to test ye skills in a series of puzzles to acquire a vast treasure. Designed for a crew of five to ten participants ages 14 and up, ye will have 45 minutes to solve all the puzzles and beat the room. Sign up at ye crew of buccaneers at Ops and see if ye can escape the room. Be sure to have ye crew arrive 5-10 minutes before ye schedules time, for a briefing on the rules and scenario.
ARR! Come join the Nearly Useless Entertainment Team as they host the first ever Penguicon Escape Room. You and a crew of ye friends will get to test ye skills in a series of puzzles to acquire a vast treasure. Designed for a crew of five to ten participants ages 14 and up, ye will have 45 minutes to solve all the puzzles and beat the room. Sign up at ye crew of buccaneers at Ops and see if ye can escape the room. Be sure to have ye crew arrive 5-10 minutes before ye schedules time, for a briefing on the rules and scenario.
ARR! Come join the Nearly Useless Entertainment Team as they host the first ever Penguicon Escape Room. You and a crew of ye friends will get to test ye skills in a series of puzzles to acquire a vast treasure. Designed for a crew of five to ten participants ages 14 and up, ye will have 45 minutes to solve all the puzzles and beat the room. Sign up at ye crew of buccaneers at Ops and see if ye can escape the room. Be sure to have ye crew arrive 5-10 minutes before ye schedules time, for a briefing on the rules and scenario.
ARR! Come join the Nearly Useless Entertainment Team as they host the first ever Penguicon Escape Room. You and a crew of ye friends will get to test ye skills in a series of puzzles to acquire a vast treasure. Designed for a crew of five to ten participants ages 14 and up, ye will have 45 minutes to solve all the puzzles and beat the room. Sign up at ye crew of buccaneers at Ops and see if ye can escape the room. Be sure to have ye crew arrive 5-10 minutes before ye schedules time, for a briefing on the rules and scenario.
ARR! Come join the Nearly Useless Entertainment Team as they host the first ever Penguicon Escape Room. You and a crew of ye friends will get to test ye skills in a series of puzzles to acquire a vast treasure. Designed for a crew of five to ten participants ages 14 and up, ye will have 45 minutes to solve all the puzzles and beat the room. Sign up at ye crew of buccaneers at Ops and see if ye can escape the room. Be sure to have ye crew arrive 5-10 minutes before ye schedules time, for a briefing on the rules and scenario.
Dagorhir combines fast-paced full-contact combat simulation with elements of live action role-playing. Get a summary of the rules and pick your weapon! Several people from the local realm of Eryndor will be on hand to spar and answer questions. We will raffle off a weapon every half hour to panel attendees. Check us out at http://eryndor.com !
This talk will go over off-roading for nerds. Topics we will cover include an overview of equipment such as primitive tractor beams, camping, how it's unique from RVs, backpacking, and tent camping, off-road etiquette, and busting some common myths.
ARR! Come join the Nearly Useless Entertainment Team as they host the first ever Penguicon Escape Room. You and a crew of ye friends will get to test ye skills in a series of puzzles to acquire a vast treasure. Designed for a crew of five to ten participants ages 14 and up, ye will have 45 minutes to solve all the puzzles and beat the room. Sign up at ye crew of buccaneers at Ops and see if ye can escape the room. Be sure to have ye crew arrive 5-10 minutes before ye schedules time, for a briefing on the rules and scenario.
Members of Band-Ayd will be discussing special effects. We have pyrotechnic licences through the city of Detroit and have worked many events throughout the state. This talk will include information about static lighting, intelligent lighting, pyrotechnics, and CO2 effects. We will be focusing on the effects available for an event without diving into the technical details. A lot of times people can see a vision but don't know how to describe what they want. We will also take some stigma away from indoor pyrotechnics. It is our job to turn a vision into a reality and take the fear out of asking for that bad ass dream.
I've been in the show production industry for almost 10 years. At Band-Ayd, I will run the lights and pyrotechnics for our various types of shows. I wanted to do this talk because I've been finding people don't know what to ask for when talking about special effects and they will... Read More →
This will be a firearms retention course based on the presenter's experience with Aikido and carrying a firearm. A unique course focused on the Tuller Drill (if someone is 21 feet away they can attack you before you can draw your firearm), this defense course covers how to avoid the first attack, giving you time to draw your weapon.
ARR! Come join the Nearly Useless Entertainment Team as they host the first ever Penguicon Escape Room. You and a crew of ye friends will get to test ye skills in a series of puzzles to acquire a vast treasure. Designed for a crew of five to ten participants ages 14 and up, ye will have 45 minutes to solve all the puzzles and beat the room. Sign up at ye crew of buccaneers at Ops and see if ye can escape the room. Be sure to have ye crew arrive 5-10 minutes before ye schedules time, for a briefing on the rules and scenario.
Phoenix Freerunning Academy will be offering instruction on some basic movements found in parkour, including jumping and landing/rolling, balancing on rails and vaulting, over objects.
Everyone gets to join in for Whose Line Is It Anyway hijinks! Participation is not only actively encouraged, but generally required for the full level of fun. Audience suggestions are also encouraged, from a Superman/Wonder Woman/Lex Luthor love triangle on Jerry Springer, to the world's worst Redshirt. Expect adult content.
ARR! Come join the Nearly Useless Entertainment Team as they host the first ever Penguicon Escape Room. You and a crew of ye friends will get to test ye skills in a series of puzzles to acquire a vast treasure. Designed for a crew of five to ten participants ages 14 and up, ye will have 45 minutes to solve all the puzzles and beat the room. Sign up at ye crew of buccaneers at Ops and see if ye can escape the room. Be sure to have ye crew arrive 5-10 minutes before ye schedules time, for a briefing on the rules and scenario.
ARR! Come join the Nearly Useless Entertainment Team as they host the first ever Penguicon Escape Room. You and a crew of ye friends will get to test ye skills in a series of puzzles to acquire a vast treasure. Designed for a crew of five to ten participants ages 14 and up, ye will have 45 minutes to solve all the puzzles and beat the room. Sign up at ye crew of buccaneers at Ops and see if ye can escape the room. Be sure to have ye crew arrive 5-10 minutes before ye schedules time, for a briefing on the rules and scenario.
This annual Penguicon event was originally inspired by GoH Sumana Harihareswara's Powerpoint Karaoke, and now she's here to do it with us! Volunteers pick a slide deck they've never seen before from a list of titles, and improvise a comedic or serious presentation for up to 5 minutes. You don't have to stick to the slides, as they're just a prop! Other audience members can improv, too, during each follow-up Q&A. As improvisations accumulate, we can build off each others' topics and Q&A sessions. Come play with us!
Sarah has been having fun at Penguicon for over ten years. Doing DevOps for her day job, she enjoys participating in other geekeries outside of work, and loves how Penguicon lets her indulge a lot of them the same weekend.
Sumana is a programmer, technology executive and open source expert who practices and teaches technical and people skills. She is also a comedian, author, and holds a master's in technology from Columbia University
This will be an introductory class for ukulele. Ukulele is fun and easy to play! Come and learn the basic chords and a simple song because who can't have a good time strumming a ukulele!
In time for the GHOSTBUSTERS blitz last summer, my team at work was asked to make a demo for a homemade PKE Meter. Using the Raspberry Pi 2, 3D Printing, and a program that we open sourced we created a homemade device that emulates the PKE including a big screen that gives readouts and the ability to stream data to Azure Cloud. Along the way we also learned about real paranormal places in our home area of Philadelphia, hit some tech road bumps, and we visited some haunted locations to test our device out. I'll explain how to use the code to make your own device and how we can improve on this hack in the future.
You may have met her many moons ago as an energetic teen who was brought to her first con by Bahb, Son of Bob. You may have been there when she got engaged to her now husband, Ryan, during an elven toast. Maybe you attended one of many epic room parties she hosted or listened in as... Read More →
The Head of Volunteers is appointed by the ConChair.The Head of Volunteers gathers and manages on-site volunteers, working with the rest of the staff to find areas which need more helping hands and then placing willing volunteers into those roles in order to keep the convention running... Read More →
ARR! Come join the Nearly Useless Entertainment Team as they host the first ever Penguicon Escape Room. You and a crew of ye friends will get to test ye skills in a series of puzzles to acquire a vast treasure. Designed for a crew of five to ten participants ages 14 and up, ye will have 45 minutes to solve all the puzzles and beat the room. Sign up at ye crew of buccaneers at Ops and see if ye can escape the room. Be sure to have ye crew arrive 5-10 minutes before ye schedules time, for a briefing on the rules and scenario.
ARR! Come join the Nearly Useless Entertainment Team as they host the first ever Penguicon Escape Room. You and a crew of ye friends will get to test ye skills in a series of puzzles to acquire a vast treasure. Designed for a crew of five to ten participants ages 14 and up, ye will have 45 minutes to solve all the puzzles and beat the room. Sign up at ye crew of buccaneers at Ops and see if ye can escape the room. Be sure to have ye crew arrive 5-10 minutes before ye schedules time, for a briefing on the rules and scenario.