Tom Tom Founders Festival 2018: Full Schedule

The Seventh Annual Tom Tom Founders Festival is a week-long celebration of innovators, visionaries, and artists who are shaping small cities. The Festival occurs at dozens of venues throughout downtown Charlottesville.

6:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Spotting Sensationalized Science in the News

Limited Capacity seats available
You need this ticket from Eventbrite to sign up: Festival Pass - Free - Links to Festival App.

Whether it is a new environmental hazard, tech threat, or health recommendation, it can be hard to know when to trust science in the media. Join us to learn how to decipher fact from fiction! The Science Policy Initiative at UVA is offering this workshop to help non-scientists build skills that can stop the spread of exaggerated or false science reporting through identifying buzzwords that raise red flags and exploring easy ways to check sources.
*Note: Attendees can park in the Scott Stadium parking lot for free after 5pm.

Workshop Leaders

Science Policy Initiative at UVA

The Science Policy Initiative at UVA is a student organization empowering scientists and engineers to be more informed and involved in science policy. It was established for the express purpose of:1) Enhancing awareness among graduate students in engineering and science disciplines... Read More →

Caitlin Donahue Wylie

Professor Wylie has researched how science and society interact at the universities of Chicago and Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and now at UVA. She focuses on the unwritten work and workers in research... Read More →

Thursday April 12, 2018 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science

Media, Community Workshop

Festival (FREE), Included in Summit Badge, or Individually Ticketed Festival (FREE)

1:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Personal Digitization

Limited Capacity filling up
You need this ticket from Eventbrite to sign up: Festival Pass - Free - Links to Festival App.

Scan and digitize your personal documents, photographs, negatives, film slides, audio cassettes, and VHS tapes in this hands-on-workshop led by JMRL librarians. Bring your items and a way to store them (USB drive, SD card, or cloud account) and JMRL will walk you through the steps to preserve your data and make the files easy to store and share.

Sponsors

Jefferson-Madison Regional Library

Jefferson-Madison Regional Library is a valuable educational resource built on the sustained efforts of local residents over the past two centuries. We think our forefathers would look kindly on what their early efforts created and we look forward to the future progress of Jefferson-Madison... Read More →

Workshop Leaders

Sarah Hamfeldt

Manager/Adult & Reference Services, JMRL

Saturday April 14, 2018 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Jefferson-Madison Regional Library