Set Press Play in kiosk mode at the entrance of a union, a welcome center, or the meeting place where industry visits your campus, and it becomes a greeting: a playful front door that introduces your programs, your partnerships, and your people while visitors wait, mingle, and connect.
The reels are not just photos. Content cards spin your program structures, partnership stories, research findings, and people into play, connecting what your institution builds to the industry and community partners walking through the door. It is the science:society interface at kiosk height, and it works a career night as naturally as it works a faculty celebration.
The event feeds the machine. The jackpot booth captures photos as people play, and each capture drops straight into the reels. By the end of the night the kiosk is spinning the event itself: your visitors, your students, your partners, on the front page they made together.
The Festival Gazette hits a triple front page. Confetti flies, the jackpot booth arms, and the card in play reads "Teach someone one thing you learned today."
The Wedding Wire. Price of admission: one dance, payable in dances, toasts, and happy tears.
The Festival Gazette in engagement mode: every visitor is a scientist today, and discoveries print hourly.
Pick your paper: the celebration line plus engagement editions, grouped by brand family. Custom editions slot in the same way.
One setting swaps everything: masthead, palette, categories, fortunes, prizes, headlines, and ticker change together. That is how the same engine greets industry partners at a welcome kiosk on Tuesday and runs a wedding reception on Saturday.
It plays the same everywhere too: keyboard, mouse, touchscreen, webcam motion zones, or a Makey Makey. Kiosk mode locks the settings and hides the chrome, so it runs unattended all event long. And it is fully offline, so it is privacy-safe for campuses, companies, and families alike.
Beyond the campus forerunner, the same staging works every professional and social gathering after it: workshops, symposiums, meetings, social placemaking, and the celebrations that follow them all.
Press Play started as the Regent Reporter, a Makey Makey slot machine built for a graduation party, where 761 family photos spun through the reels all night and nobody wanted to stop pulling the lever. The engine grew from there.
Engagement editions already exist beyond the living room: The Festival Gazette runs it as a science-festival experience, a partnership-celebration edition honors a real college partnership network, and a community diabetes-walk edition turns the same reels into a celebration of showing up. Your campus edition is next.
Run it in kiosk mode at welcome centers, career nights, symposiums, forums, and partnership events. Your programs and people become the cards; the event's own photos join the reels live.
Point a webcam at the dance floor and give your event a showpiece nobody else in town has. Load the photos, pick your paper, and guests figure it out in one joyful gesture: wave, spin, win.
A custom edition arrives fully matched to your organization: your logo, your colors, your masthead and type, with your people, programs, and partnership stories in the cards. We design and build it with you, the same way we build everything at STEMsaic.
