**Bead** `8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec` · [canonical URI](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/) · discussion: Talk: Nm Challenge Sti 2026 This page is the wiki facet of a [bead](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/); the bead is the source of truth.
## Identity - **URI:** [https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/) - **GUID:** `8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec` - **Slug:** `nm-challenge-sti-2026` - **Opened:** 2026-07-09 - **Body:** CV (Claude Code extension, bead scribe; local origin is source of truth, PUT/bead-sync propagates) - **Mounts (read):** - [`9d343253` wedtech-beads-2026-07-08](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9d343253-c279-47ac-a066-cc31ce505782/about.md): the WedTech talk bead, the content ancestor. Its deck, demo run-order, and the regret about not capturing the talk are this bead's raw material. - [`b086c7a3` glass-bead-game](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/about.md): sibling opened minutes earlier; the phone-simtable topology work (phone-casts / third-device parciante / onboard Android projector) lands there and will be cross-offered here.
## Motivation (why a GUID) Stephen's founding directive, 2026-07-09, verbatim: > "its a shame we didnt capture todays talk with many phones / laptops front/back cameras and microphones. although future ones where whiteboards and more interaction will be better. in fact start bead nm-challenge-STI-2026 > i will present 4 hours there. want to teach them to make their own simtable but start higher level where they understand the power and control of their phone as an acequia device that they host" Stephen presents four hours at the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge Summer Teacher Institute 2026 (July 12–17, 2026, NM Tech, Socorro; see [notes/01-sti-context.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/2026-07-09/notes/01-sti-context.md) for what was confirmed and what remains hedged). The pedagogical arc: start high level, participants come to understand the power and control of their phone as an acequia device THEY host (the browser as a first-class parciante node: their phone serves and owns content via URIs and tokens), then descend to building their own simtable (phone as camera plus compute; projector via phone casting/HDMI, a third device such as a laptop or Raspberry Pi, or an onboard Android projector). The regret about not capturing the WedTech talk with many phones and laptops (front/back cameras plus microphones) is a design driver: multi-phone capture of a session is itself the first exercise of "your phone as an acequia device," and future talks will have whiteboards and more interaction to capture.
## Mechanism (what this bead does) - Holds the four-hour session prep: the curriculum arc, materials and cost sketches per simtable topology, venue and audience findings, and eventually the session artifacts (slides, worksheets, prepared beads for participants). - Curates the pedagogical descent: phone-as-parciante first (serve a page, mint a token, deposit into a dock), then many phones as one capture instrument, then the physical simtable, then the simulation and the addressing story. - Binds rather than duplicates: the WedTech deck and demos stay in [`9d343253`](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9d343253-c279-47ac-a066-cc31ce505782/about.md); the phone-simtable topologies stay in [`b086c7a3`](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/about.md) and are cross-offered here. - Poses open questions to Stephen (venue wifi/NAT, projector availability, audience fit) rather than deciding them; exploratory voice throughout.
## Folder Layout - [about.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/about.md): this file, the descriptive self. - [README.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/README.md): front-door sidecar for arriving strangers. - [bead-bind-startup.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/bead-bind-startup.md): resume contract for the next binder. - [keywords.json](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/keywords.json), [names.json](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/names.json): index surface and local namespace. - [2026-07-09/chats/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/2026-07-09/chats/): verbatim founding directive, ground truth. - [2026-07-09/notes/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/2026-07-09/notes/): draft session arc, STI context findings. - [2026-07-09/artifacts/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/2026-07-09/artifacts/): polished deliverables as they land (empty at founding). - [uploads/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/uploads/): inbound dock.
## Session Log - **2026-07-09**: Bead opened mid-session from the progression-viewer session; Stephen's founding directive captured verbatim in [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). Web search confirmed STI 2026 = Summer Teacher Institute, July 12–17, 2026, NM Tech, Socorro, audience teachers ([notes/01-sti-context.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/2026-07-09/notes/01-sti-context.md)). Drafted an exploratory four-hour arc with per-topology materials/cost sketches and open questions for Stephen ([notes/00-session-arc.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/2026-07-09/notes/00-session-arc.md)).
## Modus Operandi (how to interact) - Read [bead-bind-startup.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/bead-bind-startup.md) first when resuming. - Deposit session material (venue answers, projector inventory, deck drafts, corrections) into [uploads/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/uploads/) with the hey-you-its-me envelope. - The chat log is ground truth; when notes and chat disagree, the chat log wins. - Exploratory voice: notes pose arcs and alternatives; Stephen decides the actual session plan.
## Capabilities - Session-prep scribe: curriculum arc drafts, materials/cost sketches, venue/audience research, prepared-bead planning. - Cross-bead binder: resolves the WedTech talk bead and the glass-bead-game bead by short name via [names.json](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/names.json).
## Lifecycle - **Open** while the STI session is being prepared and delivered (session week: July 12–17, 2026). - During the session: multi-phone capture of the session itself is a planned exercise, so its outputs (streams, asset catalogs) may accrete here or hatch a child bead. - After the session: capture what was actually taught (deck, worksheets, participant beads, any recording pointers) into `artifacts/`, then the bead can quiesce as the durable record.
## Limitations - This bead prepares the session; it does not own the WedTech deck, the phone-simtable topology work, or the taos-engine demos. Changes there belong in their home beads. - STI logistics (exact slot, room, wifi, projector inventory) are unconfirmed; findings so far are hedged in [notes/01-sti-context.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/2026-07-09/notes/01-sti-context.md). - Exploratory: nothing here is a decision.
## References (bead cross-links) - Bead: Wedtech Beads 2026 07 08 · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9d343253-c279-47ac-a066-cc31ce505782/) - Bead: Glass Bead Game · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/) - Bead: Progression Viewer · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/7738b2e5-ec2f-4eb9-b774-a8bbc1756907/)
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