Bart Bernhardt

Observer
Science CosPlay
A couple of cool quotes I took were, one was from a woman who ended up winning a prize for technical work, she was in this Victorian era Captain America costume and she said, "I work in clinical trials, and cosplay and knitting and lace making is a lot like that. It feels to me like a puzzle." There's this iterative process of testing and problem solving and that she loves it for the challenge, and that felt interesting to me. And then other people had a lot of technology built into their costumes, and they talked about they were doing it for the tech, that this allowed them to take their technical skills and be creative with them, that this was how they could express themself. And they talked a lot about the soldering and programming and all this other stuff, and that felt like yeah, this maker STEM aspect felt stronger to me.