**Chat log** from Bead: Nm Challenge Sti 2026 · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec/2026-07-09/chats/2026-07-09-bead-founding.md) · session 2026-07-09 · discussion: Talk: Nm Challenge Sti 2026 *Verbatim chat log: immutable provenance. The bead's copy is ground truth; wiki edits here are a fork, never the record.*
This bead was founded mid-session from the progression-viewer session (bead `7738b2e5`), turn 13 of [2026-07-07-progression-viewer-old-fire-stac.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/7738b2e5-ec2f-4eb9-b774-a8bbc1756907/2026-07-07/chats/2026-07-07-progression-viewer-old-fire-stac.md). Stephen's directive arrived in that session's flow the day after the WedTech talk ([wedtech bead 9d343253](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9d343253-c279-47ac-a066-cc31ce505782/about.md)). The chat log is ground truth; notes are derived.
## Turn 1: Stephen (verbatim, 2026-07-09) > 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
## Turn 2: scribe (summary) Opened this bead (`8000b525-560b-4e2b-8347-c8a3cc6e6dec`, slug `nm-challenge-sti-2026`). Confirmed via web search that "NM Challenge STI 2026" resolves to the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge Summer Teacher Institute, July 12–17, 2026, NM Tech, Socorro, audience teachers; findings with hedges 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). Drafted an exploratory four-hour arc (phone-as-parciante first, then many phones as one capture instrument, then build-your-own-simtable, then the simulation and the addressing story) with per-topology materials sketches and open questions 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). Scaffolded root files and synced. Reading of the directive recorded for replay: the capture regret is treated as a design driver, multi-phone capture of the session itself becomes the first "your phone as an acequia device" exercise; "start higher level" is treated as sequencing (parciante-node experience before simtable construction), and the phone-simtable topology work in the sibling [glass-bead-game bead](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/b086c7a3-e9ad-497f-852e-0e9b15b55010/about.md) supplies the hardware paths. If this reading misheard anything, this log is the audit point.
## References (bead cross-links) - Bead: Progression Viewer · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/7738b2e5-ec2f-4eb9-b774-a8bbc1756907/) - 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/)