This past Friday I ran a third iteration of Pitchfest. The first one was last may (link). I also ran Pitchfest in the Wintee but that one was smaller. We had 36 students forming 17 teams from 9 CUNY campuses. We also had a bunch of tech professionals. There were more entries that we couldn't accomodate but the 17 teams along with the tech professionals basically filled the room to capacity.

Devorah and I are spending the week in Boston, well techincally Cambridge. We came up last year around this time and had a big StuyCS meet up hosted at Formlabs. I was talking to my friends in the Stuyvesant HS Alumni Association figuring there were probably a lot of StuyCS grads in the Boston area and we agreed that we should do a meetup there. Then a couple of grads offered the space at Formlabs and we were off to the races.

Earlier today, I was informed that Stan Teitel, former principal of Stuyvesant high school had passed away at age 77. Stan started his career as a teacher in 1971 joining Stuy in the Chem/Physics department in 1983 - my senior year, though our paths never crossed. He became the Chem/Phys AP in 1997 and then Principal in September 2000, right before 9/11. He retired in August 2012 after the DOE, in my opinion did him dirty but we'll get to that in a bit.