I personally don't think it's worth the effort to staff a table there. It's a ton of people looking to be entertained or looking for somewhere to drop their kids for the summer. The amount of effort that goes into it vs. the number of people who will actually give anything back (by becoming members or similar) makes it a not so good deal. If you don't offer anything for sale or anything for kids then the only thing you can really hope to gain is an increase in the number of people who have heard about you. If we were located in the south bay I might feel differently since there is a chance of gaining members, but last time the only thing I got out of all of the conversations (I was there for only one day) was a donation of a broken pcr machine (that we did fix though) and a bit of advice on growing yeast. That was not quite worth a long exhausting day of talking to people + the commute. The only reason it makes sense for CCL is that we share a booth with BioCurious and hopefully they get more out of it.

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