Nerd Nite 3 July 25th!

Locked down details for number 3 in July!  Speakers will be:

Lizzee Solomon – Lizzee is a visual artist and designer based in Pittsburgh, PA. New York City born, Chicago suburbs raised, Carnegie Mellon School of Art trained. She’s also housebroken, is learning how to dance Salsa and speaks Spanish – Presenting: ‘Cuba for Dummies’

Ralph Crewe – Ralph is a professional science nerd, working as program development coordinator for the Buhl Planetarium and Observatory at Carnegie Science Center. He coordinates astronomical programming like SkyWatch, hosts the Café Scientifique science lecture series, created and hosts the SNaQ podcast, and is generally geeked to talk science with anybody he can. In his spare time, he plays music (bass and piano), rides his bicycle, and competes in birdwatching competitions-Presenting: ‘BS in SPACE! An Astronomical Adventure Through Cosmic Misinformation’

And me! Your MC Rorry Brenner – When I’m not hosting Nerd Nites or climbing rocks, I work as a Robotics Research Scientist. Computer Science undergrad at CMU and couldn’t figure out why robots were so blind so went off to USC to get a PhD in neuroscience – Presenting: ‘Comptuer Vision, Artificial Neural Networks, and How the Brain can Inspire A.I.’

If you haven’t been here before, check what this is about with videos from our first event at https://www.magecreate.com/nerdnitepgh.

We’re also testing the waters with a new segment: Nerd Nite Orientation.

Get your tickets on Eventbrite or Facebook!

Nerd Nite Pittsburgh Inaugural Series!

Pittsburgh’s first Nerd Nite was a blast! Thank you to everyone who came out!   Our speakers were:

Julian Whitman – CMU Robotics PhD Student – Creeping, Crawling, and Collaborating: Robots for Every Occasion
Nicolette W.M. Wong – Pitt Anthropology PhD Student – Are the Mafias the Alternative Po-Po?
Luis Von Ahn – CEO of Duolingo – How Duolingo Uses AI

Videos can be seen at: https://www.magecreate.com/nerdnitepgh

Also gonna throw a few shoutouts on this post:
– Thank you to our speakers Julian, Nicolette, and Luis you were all amazing!
– To our videographer Alex Liu can’t wait to see how things look! Alex is the founder of MageCreate.com, a business that helps leaders create impact through video. Definitely reach out if you are looking for someone to work with on a story you want to tell!
– Musical guest Nathan Zoob, you crushed it up there!

Next one has just been locked down for May 9th! If you had fun, or if you weren’t able to make it to this one but are interested in the future, like/follow our main page https://www.facebook.com/NerdNitePittsburgh for updates! You can also message us there or at if you’d like to talk about being a speaker, it comes with free admission and drinks for your friends! And as this was our first time doing this please let us know if you have any feedback, comments, questions, or concerns!

Thanks again for coming out and see you all next time!