This meetup aims to develop participants' ability to create compelling experiences which reveal some aspect of a scientific or technical subject. Science and technical subjects have a reputation for being dry and boring. It's undeserved: we're the ones making it dry and boring. Partly inspired by Toastmasters (http://www.toastmasters.org/), each session is focused on understanding the elements that combine to create powerful learning and teaching experiences, whether in demos or lectures …

… We generally exclude poetry, technical writing, songwriting etc. Some people may have examples of mixed genres, so in that way we sometimes use it. Ok to bring poetry if that's what you have... (PLEASE NOTE: This is not intended to be a writing class that is taught by an instructor; rather we are a collective group of members which is hosted in a way that allows everyone to interact with other writers and share valuable feedback or advice) We encourage every member of the group to share their wo …