The events for Sagecon 2010 are finally up. Check out the Events Schedule page to see what cool and fun events are in store for this year!

Our author guest Mike Brotherton is definitely coming to the convention and he will probably be presenting on Dark Matter and the connections between science and science fiction. Mike Brotherton is a local professor of Astronomy and physics and has published science fiction in both novel and short story form. His website is http://www.mikebrotherton.com/

Sagecon is this weekend and its looking good. The Union table has been a great success and we have had a large number of people take an interest and even suggest new panels and local resources to help out. The posters have done well and out of the 75 that I had made we are all out of the color ones. The school newspaper will be doing an article on Sagecon as well and as they were pretty accurate last year I have high hopes it will be great this time around as well. We should have a nice turnout this time.

With Sagecon swiftly approaching I am setting up regularly scheduled weekly meetings from now until the main event. This should allow us to get most of the remaining organizational work out of the way and coordinate the disparate aspects of the convention. The meetings will take place on Thursdays at the Albany County Library on Grand at 5:00 PM . I encourage any and all interested persons to attend as this is a great place to get your ideas in for the upcoming event.

We’re seeing great progress so far we’ve got people interested in and out of the state and even the local high schoolers are set to provide some material for the convention. There have been increasing issues with the fact that Sagecon has been scheduled for Easter weekend this year. It certainly is not ideal and not something that was planned for when the dates were originally set for 2010. We do not have a great many options at this point however, since we have the facility on those dates and all our material has those dates on it. There may be some ways to mitigate the problem to some extent especially by doing things like having an easter egg hunt at the convention but ultimately we will just have to deal with the fact.

Well we’re at it again for another year. Now after consulting the great jackalope we have been given the wisdom of the date for this years event. Sagecon will take place on April 3rd and 4th 2010.

Sagecon is nearly upon us. As always it remains free and open and we encourage anyone to stop by. We’ve gotten the schedule worked out and posted and confirmed our guests and speakers.

The 2009 SageCon poster has been uploaded and posted on the Goodies Page. Print it out and post it for everyone to see!

Its official. Pat and Tam Czarnik, senior members of the Mars Society, will be attending Sagecon this year as our feature speakers for the Yuri’s Night science track. The list of topics they will cover:

- Mars Direct – An explanation of the plan the Mars society has developed to complete a manned Mars mission within reasonable costs.

- The Remote Medical Access Suit – A presentation on a new kind of spacesuit that is being developed which can provide first aid to an injured astronaut before the suit is even removed.

- The Value of Space – A speech on why we need to go to Mars and what humanity will gain from such an effort.

Also to help people find the convention this webpage has all the relevant information on the University of Wyoming Classroom building.

http://www.uwyo.edu/tour/classhist.asp

Sagecon is now less than two weeks out and we are getting very excited.  Things are finally coming together and we are bringing in people from much further than we ever expected.  We’ve made great strides and the prospects for events and attendance are significantly higher than the previous year.  We’ve got the entire classroom building available for our use and intend to make the most of it.  We are having demonstrations, crafting, classes, panels and more.  And as before it is completely free.  We are in the last stages of getting the official schedule online and look forward to seeing everyone there.