Welcome to our Program Ideas page! Below is a list of ideas for panels, presentations, and other programming, that have been submitted to us.

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2026 Program Suggestions

Event Title: Hentai Gameshow

Description: Join us for an adult (18+) game show where contestants compete for prizes. Volunteers from the audience compete and play adult-themed games. These fun naughty games are for aliens and humans alike. Come show us your bawdy side, or just be a voyeur! Prizes donated by Fantasy Gifts and MarsCon. 

Suggested by: Kevin Doheny on 3/20/2025

Event Title: Hallway Costume Contest

Description: Our Hallway Costume Contest begins at the start of the con on Friday and goes until 4pm Saturday. The best part is you don’t have to sign up or do anything, other than wear your costume around con. We will have secret judges roaming the halls, and if you win, they will award you with a special button (bragging rights!), and your picture will be posted on our website and social media. There will be multiple winners during the weekend!

Suggested by: Kevin Doheny on 3/20/2025

Here are some great examples of Program (panel) Ideas that we’ve received in the past:

  • A Year in Trek
  • Sewing tips and tricks for newbies
  • How to become a Ghostbuster
  • Turning leather into costumes
  • Building costume confidence
  • FX makeup demonstration
  • Holy Bongwater (concert)
  • Even a Partial Dyson Sphere/swarm is a game changer.
  • 88 Starship Interstellar Exploration Update
  • How to write badly…and why you should
  • Comedy Writing
  • Hentai Game Show
  • Children’s Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • Cosplay Under Cover
  • ZARGS: Zombies, Aliens, Raptors & Graboids!
  • Arming your costume; building prop weapons on a budget
  • Live painting demo (prop painting)
  • Klingon belching contest
  • Discussions with Author Guests of Honor
  • Panel Karaoke
  • Craziest Japanese commercials
  • LGBTQ+ Fiction and Media
  • Everything you wanted to know about filmmaking (but were afraid to ask)
  • Don’t harsh the squee
  • Sci-fi & fantasy spies
  • Godzilla through the decades
  • Remote Viewing and the Gateway experience
  • Missing the Point: a discussion of fight choreography
  • Basic Kimu and sword techniques
  • Haedong Kumdo demonstration
  • Debunking the myths of AI (artificial intelligence)
  • Scenes from a Hat: improv comedy
  • Life on Jupiter
  • Those who cannot remember the past cannot rely on books