Follow @SkeptiCamp5280 on Twitter or Facebook for details and updates of Colorado's sixth event, coming to Boulder on May 7th!

SkeptiCamps are open, participatory events that focus on distributing knowledge within communities of skeptics. We encourage each attendee offer a short talk on a topic related to science or skepticism, but giving a talk is not required to participate. At the very least we ask that everyone be actively engaged, asking questions during the talks.

For an introduction to these newfangled open events, see Reed's recent article Top 7 Reasons Why SkeptiCamp Sucks

Contents 1 NEW! - Message from lead organizer Rich Orman via the Meetup 2 Colorado leads the way! 3 Where and when is the event? 3.1 Streaming Video 3.2 Directions and parking 4 Register to attend! 4.1 Registered participants 5 What needs to be done? 6 Participate by giving a talk 6.1 The Event Schedule 6.2 Scheduling policies and guidelines 6.3 Room layout and A/V setup 7 Contact

edit NEW! - Message from lead organizer Rich Orman via the Meetup

Skepticamp Denver/Boulder 2011 is just two days away.

We now have 91 people signed up to attend, which means that we have room for 19 more. This is the the largest and most interesting skeptical event in the metro area, so please think about coming if you have not already signed up. Please go to the Skepticamp webpage for more information and to sign up.

We do have a couple of things that you can do to help with the event, if you are so inclined.

A number of us are bringing snacks and stuff for breakfast, but 90 plus people is a lot. So, if you would like to bring something as a breakfast snack or something like that, or a mid-morning or mid-afternoon type snack, that would be great. If you could bring some hot coffee and cups, that would be great, as well.

Also, if you have a portable card table with a portable chair or two, and could bring it along, that would be great, as we are going to need somewhere to put all of the snacks and so forth (we cannot have drinks/food in the room where we are actually meeting, so this will be in the hallway outside).

If you want to bring a table or coffee, please let me know via email, so that we don't end up with 10 tables and 20 gallons of coffee.

The event is scheduled to start at 9:15, with 9:00 to 9:15 for set up. I would recommend arriving around 9:00, so you can help set up, if needed.

Hope to see you all there!

edit Colorado leads the way!

The innovation of open events in skepticism started here in Colorado with the first experimental SkeptiCamp in 2007. Now coming upon our sixth event, we build on past events in Denver, Castle Rock and Boulder. Most recently students in Fort Collins organized their first event with a record 27 talks!

These events have reached far from Colorado, with Sydney Australia hosting their first event on April 30th, which will mark the 25th event overall (History of events).

edit Where and when is the event?

Where: Leeds School Of Business--Koebel Bldg, Room 210
When: Saturday May 7, 2011, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

edit Streaming Video

We hope to have steaming video. Check back here for a link when we get closer to the event.

edit Directions and parking

The event is in the "smartroom" of the Koebel Building at the Leeds School Of Business at the CU-Boulder campus. The address is 955 Regent Drive, Boulder, CO. There is ample pay parking right in front of the building. There is a cafe/coffee shop next to the smartroom.

Please follow this link for a map. http://leeds.colorado.edu/location

edit Register to attend!

This is the official signup page for this event. There is no cost to attend.

All you need to do to register to attend is to edit this wiki page and insert your name into the list of registered participants. We will allow for 110 people to register. If you are higher than number 110, please consider yourself on a waiting list, but please come anyway. We have had waiting lists in the past and there have always been no-shows on the date of the event, and no person on the waiting list has ever been turned away. If you don't feel comfortable editing a wiki page in order to register(it is really easy, though), please send an email to richorman@q.com and you will be added in.

edit Registered participants

To add your name (individuals only please!) click the 'edit' link to the right and add yourself to the END of the list. No need to create an account!

1. Rich Orman (Lead Organizer) - Dogma Free America (blog), [twitter link @richorman] (twitter)
2. Stuart Robbins - Exposing PseudoAstronomy (blog)
3. Kai Haswell - The MetaSkeptic (blog), FoCo Skeptics Carpooling from Fort Collins? Contact kai.haswell@gmail.com.
4. Brian Walsh - Rational Alchemy (blog, podcast), FoCo Skeptics
5. Bryan Bonner Rocky Mountain Paranormal
6. Matt Baxter Rocky Mountain Paranormal
7. Reed Esau Recent articles at the IndieSkeptics blog @reedes on Twitter
8. Howard A. Landman
9. Bryan Hineser Amateur Skeptics(podcast)
10. Ian Brazee-Cannon Amateur Skeptics A
11. Kimberly Saviano
12. Rachael Acks Because you totally care what I have to say
13. Jeffery Davis of Fort Collins Skeptics in the Pub and the LIFT Podcast LIFT Podcast or Untitled Vanity Project Blog
14. Chris Bossom My Twitter
15. Dan Jones
16. R.G. Price rationalrevolution.net
17. Seth Yoder
18. Mike Smith Token Hominid (blog) M1k303 (twitter)
19. Desertphile; paranoid troglodyte One may subject themselves to my YouTube Skepticamp Announcement.
20. Dave Richards
21. Rich Ludwig
22. John Rising
23. Amy Maass FoCo Skeptics
24. Nicholas Johannsen
25. Amanda Gullickson
26. Suzy Lewis
27. Mike Cornwell
28. Josh Cink
29. Nitor
30. Tana Owens
31. Dane Torbenson
32. Katie Silver
33. Shawn Yasutake
34. Hans Masanetz
35. Timothy Condon
36. Bob Cook
37. Sean Patrick Santos A Calm Strike
38. Matt Young [1]
39. Robert Williams
40. Monique Williams
41. Robert Walker USAFA Freethinkers
42. Ted Burnham A Word For Science (blog), @awordforscience (Twitter)
43. Lynsey Grizzard [2]
44. Scott McLean [3]
45. Don Smith
46. Mike Schlosky http://gimcrackcomic.com
47. Heidi Rounds
48. Arthur Ketcham
49. Joe Anderson Emcee @JoeAnderson
50. Karen Stollznow Point of Inquiry
51. Rick Duffy
52. Bryce Batchman
53. Gloria Haley
54. Tristan Havelick
55. Peter Zupan
56. Joseph Condon
57. Michael Osburn (Only catch afternoon due to work, coming around 1:30-2 DONT SPEAK EARLY DESERTPHILE!) :P
58. Lacey Osburn (Only catch afternoon due to work, coming around 1:30-2 DONT SPEAK EARLY DESERTPHILE!) :P
59. Jeff Forsberg
60. Michael Trujillo
61. Joyce Trujillo
62. Kim Pightling
63. Eric T Walker
64. Andrew M. Mlynar
65. Jill Maxwell
66. Star Maez Tumblr
67. Robert Hester
68. Jon Haller
69. Chris Brennan
70. Robin Lynn
71. James Marks
72. Irene Clark My Opinion and Other Useless Information
73. Jesse Valdez
74. David C Harmer
75. Zachary Strider McGregor-Dorsey
76. Doctor "T"
77. Zachary Pinter http://zacharypinter.com
78. Lily Friend-Grover
79. Keith Fouts
80. David Drost
81. Melissa Hitchcock
82. Michael Duran
83. Laura Shiley
84. Jed Diller
85. Kristin Hansen
86. Len Berg
87. Yvonne Berg
88. Cody Crouch
89. Stacey Whala (morning only)
90. Ed Scholz
91. The Kitty in the Box ^_^
92. Mike T
93. Arthur Wilderson
94. Kevin Stanton
95. Ralph Addison
96. Allen Lowe
97. Dot Lowe
98. Kenyon Moon
99. Brett Littlejohn
100. Adam Sund
101. Orson Olson
102. David Giarratana
103. Carter Kalchik
104. add your name here
105. add your name here
106. add your name here
107. add your name here

edit What needs to be done?

These are collaborative, community-organized events. We need many people involved to make this event happen, such as to offer talks, to help recruit good speakers, to man the registration table and especially to help promote the event.

edit Participate by giving a talk

As SkeptiCamp is about sharing knowledge, we strongly encourage each participant to offer a short talk on a topic related to science or skepticism (though giving a talk is not required to participate.) Sorry, but at this late stage, the schedule is full where we cannot accept additional talks. However, do consider giving a talk at a future Colorado event.

edit The Event Schedule

• 9:00-9:15 Room setup & Introductory Remarks
• 9:15-9:30 R.G. Price: The Role of Perception/Mis-Perception in Shaping Beliefs
• 9:30-10:00 Kimberly Saviano: The Science of Intersex
• 10:00-10:30 Howard Landman: Adventures in Quantum Time Dilation
• 10:30-11:00 Karen Stollznow: Braco the Gazer
• 11:00-11:30 Matt Young: The Trolly Problem
• 11:30-12:00 Bryan Hineser: Mechanics of Astrology
• LUNCH‡
• 1:15-2:00‡ Bryan & Baxter: Hoaxing a Paranormal Research Group (guest stars include Rich Orman and Karen Stollznow)
• 2:00-2:15 Sean Santos: Conspiracies, Creators, and Creatures: Using Occam's Razor
• 2:15-2:30 Mike Smith: "Name that Logical Fallacy"
• 2:30-3:00 Desertphile: Free Energy and Why I Won't Allow It
• 3:00-3:30 John Rising: Homeopathy and the ACPE
• 3:30-4:00 Stuart Robbins: Physics for Skeptics
• 4:00-4:15 Shawn Yasutake: The "Other" Creation Museum in Santee, CA
• 4:15-4:45 Gordon Gamm: What do we offer the public as skeptics?
• 4:45-5:00 Reed Esau: Skeptical Trivia Challenge

• ‡The combined time for lunch and Bryan & Baxter is 2 hours. Bringing a sack lunch is recommended. If enough people are ready to go by 1:00, Bryan & Baxter will start early. This talk will be epic!

edit Scheduling policies and guidelines

Talks will be either 12 minutes with 3 minutes between talks or 25 minutes with five minutes between. The organizational committee can agree to longer times, if necessary, but only if there is more time available than there are people that want to speak. As is tradition, Rocky Mountain Paranormal will have approximately one hour after lunch, subject to change. If there are more people that want to give presentations than there is time allowed, the organizational committee may ask speakers to volunteer to take shorter times, and if there are not any volunteers the orgninzational committee may shorten all participants' speaking time to make room for more speakers, but this is within the discretion of the organizational committee.

edit Room layout and A/V setup

We have the smart room, which should have all the AV bells and whistles you would ever want. Please plan on having a visual component to your presentation, either in Powerpoint or Keynote, on a thumb drive or on your own computer. We should have a Mac and a Microsoft machine available. We strongly suggest that you also save your presentation as a .pdf file in case there is a compatibility issue with our software.

edit Contact

You can reach the organizing committee by sending an email to richorman@q.com. Please include the word "Skepticamp" in the title line. If we have more people that want to do presentations than the time allows, the organizing committee reserves the right to modify (shorten) the amount of time allowed for each presentation.