SKEPTICONERS! How much do the organizers of Skepticon love you? DUDES LIKE SO MUCH! We have put together this amazebananas checklist to make sure you are ready for the weekend as we’re only 20 days away from the big event! Registered (Only those who register are guaranteed a lanyard and badge!) Read more…
Skepticoners, Due to the awesome generosity of an anonymous donor, Skepticon is able to award three travel grants to 3 woman-identified feminist skeptics this year. It’s time to meet our awardees as they share how they would benefit from attending SK8: Xandi “I’m an atheist living in the Bible Belt. Not only Read more…
Skepticontownville! Skepticon HQ is overjoyed to announce that we will be incorporating a live closed captioning service at this year’s conference! We will be working with the awesome people over at White Coat Captioning! Let’s learn a little bit more about them: White Coat Captioning provides Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) Read more…
It’s here!  Click this link to see Skepticon 8’s Schedule! Because we’ve put the schedule on Lanyrd, you can also get mobile apps (for Fruit Phones or Robot Phones) so you can keep the schedule right on your fancy pocket computer while at the conference. SUPER NEATO. Love, Skepticon P.s. Did you know Read more…
Skeptifoodies! Food trucks will be back the entire weekend of Skepticon to feed our heathen faces. Check out the amazing food trucks that are going to be with us: London Calling What: “We would love for you to come and try our handmade, hand crimped, and freshly baked Pasties (Pass-Teez). Read more…
Skepticon HQ is overjoyed to announce that we are partnering with local game shop Changeling Games to bring you a Tabletop Gaming Night Friday, November 13th from 10pm–? (That’s right, QUESTION MARK!) at Skepticon 8! Check out the amazing lineup of games that will be available: King of Tokyo Werewolf Read more…
Get your dancing shoes ready, because SkeptiProm is back! Announcing SkeptiProm 2: Electric Boogaloo Saturday, November 14th from 9pm–1am! Donkey Kong… 8-bit signs… Bad movies about break dancing… We sense a theme developing! Plans are still in the works, but yes, we are working around the 80’s! As with last Read more…
Skepticon HQ is excited to announce the presence of the one and only Tinkerbell this year at Skepticon 8! Check her out in all of her glory: If this doesn’t make you all excited about SK8, then we don’t know what will! See you (and Tinkerbell) in November! Love, Skepticon Read more…
Skepticon is excited to announce that we will be partnering with Community Blood Center of the Ozarks to host a blood drive on Friday, November 13th from 1pm-5pm. They will be bringing their Bloodmobile to the south side of the conference center, so be sure to check our their Donor Eligibility Information to get ready. Before Read more…
Skepticon strives to create a yearly event that is accessible for as many attendees as possible. This year, we’re hoping to take that mission a step further: [Skepticon 8 Closed Caption from Kaitlyn Chandler on Vimeo.] Not only do we want to incorporate a live closed captioning service, we’ve obtained the services Read more…