Program for Snap!Con 2020

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2020-07-30

13:10 PM PDT

Dan Garcia

There's normally a reception after the first full day of any face-to-face conference, where attendees can stand around those tall tables with a plate full of food and meet one another. We will be using breakout rooms in the main plenary zoom room as an attempt to recreate the experience -- participants will be placed into rooms of 3 people to talk to one another for 10 minutes, then be shuff...
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2020-07-31

13:10 PM PDT

Jens-Peter Knemeyer

Many recall the Scavenger Hunt from 2019 with great fondness, as it allowed us to explore Heidelberg (our host city), work in teams, and have fun. We're bringing it back this year with a virtual scavenger hunt, led by the same team that brought us such creative challenges last year.


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2020-08-01

13:10 PM PDT

Jeremy Millard, Michael Ball, Dan Garcia

(from blockeley.com) "Blockeley is a virtual replica of the UC Berkeley campus in Minecraft. In May we hosted a virtual graduation for the UC Berkeley class of 2020."

Join us as UC Berkeley (and Minecraft fans) faculty Michael Ball and Dan Garcia give a virtual tour of campus, where SnapCon 2020 was to be held.


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Jadga Hügle

Join us for fun, social, virtual games to get to know each other...

Online game: http://playtaboo.com/

Clue cards have the clue word on the top of the card and the taboo words listed below the clue word. Clue-givers then start and keep the timer and must get their team to say the guess-word on the card withou...
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Shannon Hearn

Join us for fun, social, virtual games to get to know each other...

Online game: https://skribbl.io/

Rules: When its your turn to draw, you will have to choose a word from three options and visualize that word in 80 seconds, alternatively when somebody else is drawing you have to type your guess into the chat t...
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Jonas Ong

Join us for fun, social, virtual games to get to know each other...

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codenames_(board_game)#Rules

"Codenames is a game of guessing which codenames (i.e., words) in a set are related to a hint-word given by another player.

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