An unprecedented collection of GeekDads descended on the first edition of Pax East. Somehow we had convinced the organizers that their attendees would be interested in hearing from us about raising the next generation of geeks. This was the first east coast edition of Pax, a hugely popular gaming convention. The 60,000 tickets for the [...]
Friday night, I will be in the Wyvern Theatre at Pax East speaking on Bringing up the Next Generation of Geeks. If you are attending Pax East, please stop by at 7:00 and pretend to be interested. (We’ll pretend to be interesting.) How young is too young for The Hobbit? What should my kids’ first [...]
The schedule for Pax East has been released. What is PAX East? PAX East is a three-day game festival for tabletop, videogame, and PC gamers. We call it a festival because in addition to dedicated tournaments and freeplay areas we’ve got nerdcore concerts, panel discussions, and an exhibitor hall filled with booths displaying the latest [...]
Several GeekDad writers will host a panel at PAX East. The panel, titled “Bringing Up the Next Generation of Geeks,” will include Dave Banks, Natania Barron, Matt Blum, John Booth, Doug Cornelius (that’s me), Michael Harrison, and Corrina Lawson. We described the session as: How young is too young for The Hobbit? What should my [...]