**Bead document** from Bead: Nm Challenge Sti 2026 · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/bead-bind-startup.md) · discussion: Talk: Nm Challenge Sti 2026
**Do this first:** read the draft session arc at [2026-07-09/notes/00-session-arc.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/2026-07-09/notes/00-session-arc.md). It carries the candidate four-hour spine, the per-topology materials sketch, and the open questions awaiting Stephen. **Current focus:** curriculum arc drafting. The arc is exploratory; Stephen has not yet picked among the alternatives or answered the open questions.
## Open items - [ ] Stephen reviews the draft arc in [notes/00-session-arc.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/2026-07-09/notes/00-session-arc.md) (hour boundaries, hands-on vs demo balance, which topology to feature). - [ ] Confirm Stephen's actual slot within the STI week (July 12–17, 2026) and the room: single 4-hour block or split sessions? - [ ] Venue network reality check: NM Tech wifi, NAT, captive portal; can ~20 phones serve pages to each other on one LAN, or does the session need a travel router / local hotspot? - [ ] Projector inventory: what does NM Tech provide; how many of the three topologies can be physically staged? - [ ] Audience calibration: teachers (confirmed), mixed coding experience (Python/NetLogo track elsewhere in the week); how much terminal-free can the phone-parciante hour be made? - [ ] What can be prepared as beads in advance (a participant-bead template, a shared dock, a capture-rig manifest, a fire/water sim ready to project)? - [ ] Cross-offer from [`b086c7a3` glass-bead-game](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/about.md): the phone-simtable topology notes and sketches, once stable, get offered into this bead's [uploads/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/uploads/) dock. - [ ] Multi-phone capture rig: draft the concrete choreography (how many phones, mounting, stream naming, where streams land) as its own note. Canonical self: [about.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/about.md). Ground truth: [chats/2026-07-09-bead-founding.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/2026-07-09/chats/2026-07-09-bead-founding.md).
## References (bead cross-links) - Bead: Glass Bead Game · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/)