Atlanta had its first Skepticamp in February of 2009. It was covered in detail in Episode #97 of the Skepticality Podcast.
Friday & Saturday, February 6th & 7th, 2009
Doraville Civic Center Doraville, Georgia
This is the final schedule.
edit Friday, February 6, 2009
| Time
| Name
| Topic
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| 6:45 PM | Taylor Proctor | Welcome/Overview/Rules
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| 7:00 PM | Brian Jones | Logical Fallacies
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| 7:30 PM | Tim Farley | One Year of Harm
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| 8:00 PM | Maria Walters | 10 questions every skeptic will get asked (and how to answer them sort of diplomatically)
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| 8:30 PM | Blake Smith | Lord Dufferin and the Truth
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| 9:00 PM | | Skepticality and American Freethought Podcasts
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edit Saturday, February 7, 2009
| Time
| Name
| Topic
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| 10:00 AM | Taylor Proctor | Welcome/Overview/Rules
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| 10:30 AM | Simon Menanteau-Ledouble | A short introduction to the Scientific Method with special consideration to its application on the Theory of Evolution
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| 11 - 11:15 AM | | BREAK
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| 11:15 AM | Scott Little | The Detox Myth
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| 12:00 AM | Jerry Jobe | Applied Kinesiology
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| 1215-1230 | | GROUP PHOTO
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| 12:30 PM | | LUNCH BREAK 1230 PM - 130 PM (Lunch provided for all)
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| 1:30 PM | Andrew Sevrinsky | Evolution is a Fact
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| 2:00 PM | Christian Walters | Designing Online Info
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| 2:30-2:45 PM | | BREAK
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| 2:45 PM | Veronica Robertson | Organic Food: Is it really better?
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| 3:15 PM | Heidi Anderson | Skeptics Guide to Parenting
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| 3:45 PM | Lisa Hammett | Genetics and Molecular Biology in only 30 minutes.
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| 4:15 PM | Rich Hammett | Neuroscience, neural plasticity, and dane bramage
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| 4:15 - 4:30 PM | | BREAK
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| 4:30 PM | Stephen King | Theater superstitions
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| LAST | Taylor Proctor | Looking back at SkeptiCamp
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- Lead Organizer/Set Up: Taylor Proctor- AtlantaSkeptics@gmail.com
- Volunteer Coordinator/Clean Up/Misc: Maria Walters
- Sign In/Scheduling/Timing: Daphne Ross
- T-shirts: Irena Rowe
- Food/Drinks: Lisa Hammett
- Computer/Wireless: Tim Farley
- Sound: Justin/Scott Little