The X-STEM Extreme Science Symposium, held in April 2014, was a daylong science program for kids. The agenda featured more than twenty presentations by notable
scientists.
attendees were treated to demonstrations and interactive events
on subjects like astrophysics and oceanography.

Six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death. and this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends. no ship made sail next day until some shipmate had raised a cry, three times, for each poor ghost unfleshed by the cicones on that field.