Tim and Steve give a recap of the North American Materials Education Symposium that was held July 29-31, 2026 at the University of Victoria in Canada. We discuss some of our favo(u)rite talks and what made them so interesting and informative. We also have a travel saga of the journey trying to get home through many cancelled flights! Finally, we have some testimonials from NAMES attendees about why they love the conference. The next NAMES will be at the University of Delaware in 2027 - hope to see you there!

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This episode is sponsored by the TMS Foundation (https://www.tms.org/TMSFoundation/TMSFoundation/Default.aspx), The Electric Vehicle Center (EVC) at the University of Michigan (https://evc.engin.umich.edu/), and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).