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Nerd Nite Pittsburgh Be There and Be Square Pittsburgh Home Pittsburgh Videos Contact Audience FAQ Speaker FAQ Nerd Nite Global Cities Videos Sponsorships Nerd Nite Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Home Pittsburgh Videos Contact Audience FAQ Speaker FAQ Nerd Nite Global Cities Videos Sponsorships Welcome Stay in touch: Facebook / Instagram / mailing list What’s up Nerds! This is the homepage for . We host two types of events. Nerd Nite Classic is a comedy show that’s a mix between stand up, TED talks, and a social mixer. Speakers present for 15 minutes on a variety of topics related to science and technology, popular culture, history, and other nerdery with a vibe that’s as entertaining as it is academic! Audience members can ask questions, and beforehand there is an entirely optional social game called Speed Friending. If you like comedy, learning about random and interesting things, and meeting other nerds this is for you! Our second event is The Pittsburgh Mixer. With the enormous success of Speed Friending at our classic events we realized there was a need in Pittsburgh for more events to meet new people face to face. Pittsburgh mixers are specifically designed to make that as easy as possible. We start out with another round of Speed Friending and then set you free to hang out at a bar with chill music volumes, all kinds of fun social games, drinks, food, and the vibes you need to make new connections. The next, or most recent, event will be below and feel free to check out past events with the links in our menus. Follow us on Facebook or Instagram or sign up for our mailing list to get notified when new shows are coming up. If you’ve never been out before and you want to know what you’re getting yourself into, check our our Guest FAQ , our Code of Conduct , and videos from past speakers on our YouTube page . If you’re worried you’re not nerdy enough to come out, check out our page addressing that concern we wrote just for you! If you’re interested in being a speaker in the future please reach out at *protected email* !! Info for that can be found on our Speaker FAQ page . Pittsburgh Mixer – March 16th Tickets Here! The best way to meet new people is through the people you already know. This is why house parties are the best place to do it. Pittsburgh Mixers are designed to simulate all the benefits of a house party out at a bar with random strangers. It’s like going back to the good ol’ days when more people randomly met out in the world! PHASE ONE – Pitch-A-Friend – 7:00-7:30 – If you want to meet people because you’re single we start out with a segment just for you! Pitch-A-Friend is Shark Tank for dating. Pitch-A-Friend will allow folks to gush about their single friends in Nerd Nite’s classic entertaining and silly PowerPoint format to potential prospects in the audience! Do you have a single friend who you want to help find love? Are you single and have a friend who knows how awesome you are? Fill out this form to let the world know! Are you single but don’t want to be in the limelight? Then come out to enjoy the show and find time through the rest of the night to say hi to anyone who catches your eye or reach out to them later through the contact info in the presentations! Doors open at 6 to come in and grab a seat. Check the details before coming over since start time may be pushed back if we don’t have enough submissions to fill the whole hour. PHASE TWO – Speed Mingling – 7:30-8:30: Speed Mingling will rotate you around with other guests for 5-minute conversations with new people. One of the best reasons house parties are so great for meeting people is that, almost always, everyone either knows the host or is a friend of someone who knows the host. So you are sure to be only a few mutual connections away from everyone there, and those who connect the dots are also in attendance! With Speed Mingling, our goal is to create an atmosphere with that same vibe. If you’ve never done one of these before please take a minute to read over how it works before you arrive. Rules of Speed Mingling are in line with the Stoplight Party rules outlined below. If you’re mingling with someone and you’re both wearing a green wristband go ahead and make it a speed date, but if either or you is red or yellow keep it friendly. PHASE THREE – Starting at 8:30: The real mixer begins. We’ll keep the tunes at a medium volume so you can enjoy them and hear people easily. Additionally, we’ll have all the social games that you loved for the first parties. We’ll be partnering once again with CityOfPlay to have a wide selection of party games such as Telestrations, Codenames, and Monikers, and all are welcome to bring their own from home! We’ll also have dice and cards for whatever you want to do with them, and beer pong tables to re-live your college days. And, of course, there will be great food, drinks, and lots of extra space just to talk and hang out. Essentially the perfect party if you want it to be easy to talk to strangers. In an effort to make our events a perfect vibe where singles can look for dating prospects while those just looking to make new friends still have a safe space they don’t have to worry about uncomfortable vibes our mixers are Stoplight Parties! All this means is when you arrive, tell us what wristband color you want. Green means you’re single and looking to mingle. Yellow means you are looking but tells others not to flirt with you unless you flirt with them first. Red means you’re just here for friends and others should know you do not want to be hit on at all. If you’re wearing red and anyone is not following the rules just let us know and those people will be warned and then removed. See you there! -Rorry, Ralph, and Karen P .S. This event is 21+ and requires ID Speed Friending / Speed Mingling Rule Change Hey Nerds, the team and I have had a regrouping session and are making an announcement. When first started one of the main changes I wanted to add to the standard event from other chapters was for there to be an organized social activity. After a few duds, Speed Friending has become a crowd favorite and regularly reported as one of the best ways in Pittsburgh to meet new people. Despite this, after some feedback on our events this year we feel like we made a mistake. It is a significant enough mistake that we wanted to make a formal announcement that we are changing how we’re running things so everyone has the same expectations moving forward and so that we can get our event back to being the type of event we want it to be. We have had the same description of Speed Friending since the beginningWhether you are new to the city and hoping to make friends, trying to expand your professional network with other nerds, or are single and looking to mingle, the game is just about meeting new people! ” We’re nerds. We’re a little awkward. It’s part of who we are. We do better when social rules are clearly defined. So when one person in a friend-match is single and looking to mingle” and the other person in the match is new to the city and hoping to make friends” we have received feedback that there have been uncomfortable interactions. We want everyone to feel welcome, safe, and respected at our events. Because of this feedback, moving forward single and looking to mingle” will no longer be a part of Speed Friending at our comedy/TED nights. I want to be incredibly clear here, no one has done anything wrong except for us. This is our fault we don’t want anyone to feel bad about their choices at our previous events related to this rule change. Moving forward for the singles: Our mixers with Pitch-A-Friend and stoplight parties are becoming our most popular event. At these events we will run Speed Mingling rather than Speed Friending. We will continue hosting these events so you can bring out your inner Casanova to those wearing green wristbands while yellow and red wristbands will fall back on the Speed Friending rules. Additionally,...