Not everything we try comes together, and we think it is worth being honest about that. Around Queen’s Homecoming in the autumn of 2024 we explored bringing Everconnected to the wider campus community: not a seminar room or a research cohort, but the crowds, the alumni, the whole noisy gathering at once.
It didn’t happen that time. Reaching a whole campus during one of its busiest weekends needed more coordination and lead time than we had, and we would rather do something properly than rush it. But it was one of our first serious attempts to take the idea from a controlled study to a real community at scale, and even the planning taught us a great deal about what that leap actually requires.
We are keeping the idea. Some of the most useful lessons came from the things that didn’t quite work, and a campus full of people who already share a place is exactly the kind of ground Everconnected is built for.