Session Proposals 2026 Please note, these are the sessions currently proposed by our members. This is not the final list of sessions. Willow Marler *CLICK* The next slide appears. *CLICK* A text box appears. *CLICK* An image appears. Evaluation: presentation appears boring and sluggish. Treatment: proper use of PowerPoint/Keynote’s animation tools. Find out how the 12 Principles of Animation can be used to give your slides character; replace that laser pointer with dynamic triggers that let you interactivel explore your presentation; and push PowerPoint and Keynote to their absolut limits! This hands-on training session has been known to result in presentations brimming with energy, among many other positive slide effects. Hannah Hagon This session will immerse attendees in playful, sensory, screen-free activities that teach the principles of computational thinking through the power of embodied cognition. Participants will actively engage in challenges that demonstrate how children learn to decompose problems, spot patterns, and design simple algorithms—all through hands-on play. The session will also explore ways to embed these approaches into schools, family learning, and community programs, giving attendees tools to transform their own practice. Expect laughter, lightbulb moments, and tangible takeaways you can use the next day.
STEM - Science, Teenagers, Engineering and Maths Teenagers can appear another species to those of us who don't interact with them regularly. Their social and educational worlds are very different from those of many of our core audiences.
Chemistry That Sticks is a high-energy, hands-on workshop that shows how to turn complex science into unforgettable experiences. I'll blend eye-catching chemistry demonstrations with storytelling, humor, and real-world examples from live events and media. Participants will be equipped with practical tools to engage any audience and they will learn how to design simple, high-impact demos, frame ideas so they actually stick, and communicate science with confidence, creativity, and enthusiasm. Participants leave inspired, empowered, and ready to make science exciting everywhere they share it!
Sam Langford This hands-on session is designed to help you discover how OBS Studio can transform your laptop into a powerful broadcasting tool that is perfect for virtual talks, live experiments, interviews, and more. Whether you’re new to streaming or curious about levelling up your digital presence, you’ll learn how to combine slides, screen captures, video, and audio into a polished, professional-looking production.
James Piercy We will hear stories, not direct or critique technique but learn power by listening and telling in this lunchtime activity with James Piercy and others.
Lizah van der Aart This will be a guided session where attendees will create their own science comic. No experience needed, only pen and paper. This workshop will walk you through the same steps we take when we create YouTube videos for a general audience and will share tricks that you can use for any project that tells a story.
Lets face it. Everyone wants a fantastic podcast! You might be just thinking about ideas for format or structure. You might be thinking about how you can edit and record clean waves and the kit involved. You might even be a podcast veteran who has that edit that you just cannot clean. Well Dr Pods Podcast surgery might be able to help! in this lunch time drop in session you can bring ideas for discussion, talk about formats and what works best, get a recording done for your channels, have a tutorial about getting started in Adobe Audition, have a go at multitrack editing, explore spectral editing and even bring those pesky edits for some treatment.
Gareth Campbell Have you ever sat through a conference and thought "I can't take one more slide with data on it"? Well, this could be just the lubrication that prevents your talks from being drier than solid CO2. In this gig-style workshop you will learn about the transferrable skills that 3 chancers who do stand-up as a hobby have utilised in their jobs as science communicators. |
Slide Effects – Animating in Presentation Programs