conchair

Karen Corbeill, Guest of Honor 2019 Karen Corbeill’s passions and skills range from welding and web design to cosplay and crochet. She’s also cares deeply about helping girls and women acquire skills and enter non-traditional trades. Karen has been involved in the Maker Movement since 2010 and gained experience at i3 Detroit, where she was the Education & Events Coordinator and was elected president before she moved to Madison, WI in 2013. She founded STEAMboat Workshops in Madison to inspire…

Sophia Brueckner, Guest of Honor 2019 Sophia Brueckner, born in Detroit, MI, is a futurist artist/designer/engineer. Inseparable from computers since the age of two, she believes she is a cyborg. As a software engineer at Google, she built products used by tens of millions. She received her MFA from RISD and MS from the MIT Media Lab where she investigated the simultaneously empowering and controlling aspects of technology with a focus on wearables. At the University of Michigan, she teaches…

Daniel Hanson of Crafty Celts, Guest of Honor 2019 Daniel Hansen discovered metal working as a teenager, learning everything he could about making weapons, armor, and other items for historical re-enactment. He took his first jewelry making class in 1988 as a college student, setting out to make a brooch for the cloak he wore to re-enactment events. He developed a true passion for metal-work, continued studying jewelry-making, and created his business, Crafty Celts, to sell his work to other…

Tell Tale Penguin Party at Confusion Join us this weekend at Confusion for our literary inspired party. We will be raffling off books from our Guest of Honor, inspiring you with a mix of funky tunes, and tempting your taste buds with yummy snacks and fun drinks. We will also be offering a weekend only promo code for $10 off of registration. So stop by on Saturday night to find out what is happening this year at Penguicon.

Mikey Mason, Guest of Honor 2019 Mikey Mason spent more than a decade as a full-time standup comedian. He headlined on all four coasts, performed multiple times each on NBC, at the legendary House of Blues, and the Hard Rock Casino. He even headlined the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas. But it wasn’t enough.In 2011, he released a song expressing his geekier side (She Don’t Like Firefly) that went viral on YouTube and got him featured on Nerdist.com,…

Ribbon Ordering Now Open It is the moment that everyone anxiously waits for each year: The ribbon ordering form. We have been hard at work finding a new vendor for our ribbons this year in order to provide everyone with high quality and lowest cost ribbons. We believe we have found a great vendor and look forward to ribbon success this year. We will be using Hodges Badge Company Inc. to create the ribbons and paypal to process the payments.…

It is finally time!  Time to submit your ideas to help bring all of the things to Penguicon 2019.  This year we have streamlined things a bit by putting everything in one form. So whether you want to suggest programming, run a panel yourself, or have ideas for a special event this document will be a one stop spot for you.   Each event, panel, or suggestion will need a separate submission. So, if you have a lot of ideas you may…

Once in a while you stumble through the doors of a magical place and realize just what you have been missing in your life up to that point.  That is how it felt for me seven years ago when I attended my first Penguicon and every year since. I have enjoyed working to bring this awesome Con into existence and this year it is my honor to be the 2019 ConChair. Each year the ConChair gets to bring their own…