The event went amazingly well and I was so proud to have had a hand in helping to organize and emcee an event which, over the years, has had a proven impact on the students who attend (the VHEC's own Nina Krieger and Kazuko Kusumoto both attended the event as students).
I could write an entire blog post about the event itself, but Basya Laye of the Jewish Independent has already written a fantastic article which you can find here.
Perhaps one of the most unexpected aspects of this year's Symposium was finding out that afterwards a number of students were using Twitter to tell their social networks about what they had experienced and how the day had impacted them. It was great to see this sort of spontaneous, unsolicited feedback about the program. In many ways, it was much more candid and real than the feedback that they had given us on our carefully created evaluation forms. These tweets also had the added bonus of creating excitement among the VHEC staff (the majority of whom were largely unfamiliar with Twitter or didn't see the appeal) for using this type of social media more actively to promote our organization and the work that we do here.
