🎙️ The Day of Discovery Inside Benedictine College’s Festival of Ideas
“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”— G.K. Chesterton
For one day each year in Atchison, Kansas, the quiet halls of Benedictine College are transformed into something like a medieval fair of the mind.
It is called Discovery Day.
Poster boards rise where lectures once stood. Students gather—not to receive knowledge, but to present it. Engineers unveil rockets and autonomous systems. Biologists speak of bacteria, memory, and the hidden architectures of life. Philosophers and historians wander nearby, asking questions that are older than the buildings themselves.
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