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🫶 The following is our periodic update for the emotionally invested.
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Hi!
It has been a fun and wild 4 months. There are inevitably things we fail to capture in these updates - it’s hard to measure the confidence built or friendships made - but here’s what we’ve been up to!
Sessions
- There was too much demand. For the first time, we experimented with 2 weekly sessions. In total, we had 763 unique attendees across all events!
- It was our most diverse term yet, in many ways. We’ve had the most balanced ratio of technical to non-technical projects, and also our best gender ratio yet.



- We enabled thousands of hours of creative work throughout the term. 49% of all attendees this term were first-timers, working on things they would not have otherwise. Some highlighted projects demoed throughout the term are:
- Companies and organizations
- Jennifer Tsai - Nucleate Dojo, a biotech innovation accelerator
- Om Gandhi - Birbl, a startup providing secure ways for organizations to use AI
- Mulei Mao - Duckweed hydroponic and plant-based protein
- Lagan Bansal - Reccs, a startup providing personalized dance coaching
- Hardware
- Artistic
- Joy He - Mixed media poetry
- Chantelle Ng - Songwriting about dinosaurs and math, singing
- Julia Cosma - Painting and other art
- Adriana Ceric and family(!) - Oil paintings of scenery and cities
- Bruce Wang - Oil painting portraits of Dune characters
- Nmeso - Filmmaking
- Lina Lam - Sketchbook and face painting
- Research
- Rikard Saqe - Alternative proteins research
- Lucas Shu and Tessa P - HRTimelines, an independent trans healthcare research project
- Software
- Content++
- 4 Socratica hosts recently supported by Emergent Ventures, bringing us to a total of 9
- 5 Socraticans who received YC interviews, 2 offered a spot.
- 5 Socraticans in Buildspace’s final 32-game show. With Chris Samra and Avery Chiu ****winning it out of 17,000 people.
- Operationally, we smoothed things out by bringing our weekly expenses down by 60%, to be able to serve more people

Symposium
- We collected a lot of feedback to better understand our impact, in the first part, we asked people questions that mapped to our values and to rate them on a scale from 1-7. Here’s a glimpse of them:
- Kind people: I like the people I interacted with at Symposium (avg: 6.4/7)
- True Balance and Belonging: I felt like I belonged at the Symposium (avg: 6.0/7)
- Making Things: I feel inspired to continue working on or start a passion project (avg: 6.5/7)
- Silly: Symposium brought out the silliness in me (avg: 5.1/7)
The whole thread on Twitter is really worth checking out!
The whole thread on Twitter is really worth checking out!
https://twitter.com/socraticainfo/status/1731780736015798425
- Record RSVPs - 450 registrations before we closed it, and ~300 attendees. It’s the most we’ve ever had, we weren’t even able to post our final promo video because we had already maxxed our capacity several days before the event
- Demos - Among booths and live presenters, we got to showcase 25 demos