Geek Girl Con: A Fan Convention for Everybody (But Girls Most of All)

BNP West Coast applied for our press passes and booked our plane tickets to attend this year’s Geek Girl Con months ago and we’ve been planning for it like 5-year-olds going to Disneyland. Geek Girl Con was originally inspired by a panel titled, “Geek Girls Exist” at San Diego Comic-Con — what started as a great dialogue lead to a dream to see more for female geeks and nerds in fandom. A dream that just keeps getting better. First officially opening their doors in 2011, the convention has rapidly become bigger and bigger, much to the delight of fangirls and all those who support them. GGC opened this year with featured guests from rapper Sammus to Jude Brownbill, Yun Lien, and Angelique Reisch (all women who have worked at Pixar Animation Studios and who spoke on the Women of Pixar panel on the opening day) to Natalie McGriff, 7-year old co-author of the children’s book, The Adventures of Moxie McGriff. The convention spanned all of The Conference Center in downtown Seattle, WA and drew more than 10,000 attendees, with one-tenth of those being girls under 18. That’s an amazing testament to the interest and strength of this portion of fandom. Let us walk you through the convention, bottom to top. By the time you finish this review, you’ll be planning your trip next year: we’ve already put in for our press passes.

First Floor: DIYSciZone  

One of Geek Girl Con’s goals is to support and encourage girls to get into the STEM fields. To that end, they put a huge emphasis o…