Our symposium today, the culmination of our three days of collective brainstorming and preparation, was a success! A large group of very interesting people came out to see what we had to show and say.
The audience asked great questions, the student demos went spectacularly well, and everybody was energized by the realization that all of our respective work really did hang together into a kind of shared vision.
Perhaps the best part was the realization that these people — the ones in the room with us — are our natural community, our future collaborators, our “fellow travelers”.
Now we’ll just have to see whether we can sustain that momentum!