USITT - Friday

Long day today. Started out this morning with the Young Technician's Forum. Then there was a lot of booth. Round about then I snapped a pic of Joel becuase he couldn't be bothered to come to the reception:

Then I went to the Tech Expo to see the new entries. Here I got to see something remarkably like an item I built at Chicago Scenic maybe a decade ago - I'm sure I didn't invent it either...


After that was the Project Management session. We had a good turnout, and except for the fire alarm going off mid session I think it went pretty well. We didn't end early and most of the people that were there at the start were still there at the end.


After that we had a tribute to Ben Sammler. He got a lifetime achievement award from USITT. He gave a real nice speech and almost lost it a little when it came time to thank Larainne.


From there off the the CMU Alumni Reception. Since we haven't had an official one I think we had a fairly decent turnout:



And then after that off to the Yale Alumni Reception...


That's Victoria Nolan telling the group about Ben's award. He didn't make a speech at this event. I spent most of the Yale reception pimping kids to Cirque people. It's nice to be useful.

Tomorrow - back to yinsburgh to catch up on BSG and SCC.