A Geek Dad's Guide to Family Fun at the Commonwealth Club

Media Advisory from 

The Commonwealth Club the nation’s premier public affairs forum

SPEAKER:     Ken Denmead, Editor and Publisher, GeekDad.com; Author

TITLE:            Ken Denmead, Geek Dad

DATE:             Wednesday, August 3, 2011

TIME:             6:30 p.m., Check-In | 7 p.m., Program | 8 p.m. Book Signing

PLACE:          Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto

PRICE:           $20 standard, $12 Members, $7 students (18 and under)

To buy tickets call (415) 597-6705 or register at www.commonwealthclub.org

CONTACT:   Riki Rafner, Director of Media and Public Relations, (415) 597-6712

                        Chelsea Davis, Public Relations Fellow, (415) 597-6734

Media interested in attending should please RSVP to

cdavis@commonwealthclub.org and please bring business card to event.

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Editor and publisher of GeekDad.com, author, and most importantly, dedicated father and husband Ken Denmead, will delve into the world of hands on fun for the family.  With the belief that in order to truly understand science and how something works you must design and build it yourself, Denmead discusses the best Do-It-Yourself projects, experiments, and weekend adventures that everyone can enjoy together.   

The critically acclaimed GeekDad, the parenting blog for Wired Magazine’s online presence, receives over one million hits per month from inquisitive parents and kids alike in search of creative outlets.  It has been named one of Time Magazine’s best blogs of 2010.  In addition, Denmead is publisher of the companion blog, GeekMom, where he and others post projects, book and movie reviews, weekly podcasts, and more about being a parent and being a geek.  Denmead’s debut book, Geek Dad, was on bestseller lists and in its seventh printing just two months after hitting store shelves. With his next book about to launch, he keeps the science enthusiasm churning, with instructional projects such as how to build homemade robots.

Ken Denmead resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and works as a civil engineer.  He graduated from University of California, Davis with a B.A. in Civil Engineering.

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