The downtown institution plans to reopen May 29, and tickets go on sale May 3. You can get more details at And if you’ve been aching to get back to the Tech in person, there’s good news on the horizon. If you want to see the best of the best, awards are being presented May 2 at 3 p.m. The student teams - ranging from fourth-graders to high school seniors - presented their creations and answered questions about them during online showcases last weekend. This year’s Tech Challenge: Ultimate Upcycle - presented by San Jose-based Zoom Video Communications (in more ways than one) - asked teams to build a useful item out of cardboard that could be transformed into something else using the same pieces. But having every aspect of the yearlong program be virtual was just a bump in the road for the more than 1,200 students who participated in the signature program of the San Jose-based Tech Interactive.
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TECH CHALLENGE ENDURES: Of all the real-world problems the Tech Challenge has tackled over the past 34 years, figuring out how to conduct the innovation competition during a pandemic that had most students distance-learning apart from each other might have been the biggest. “There’s always a lot of questions, and we can invite them back to our beer room for a meeting.”
“When our business development folks go to a client’s office, it’s a really nice icebreaker to bring a four-pack of beer with them and then you have this additional thing to talk about,” she said. Sandis Vice President Laura Cabral, who has fond memories of a chocolate porter, said being a company that also makes beer is a helpful marketing tool. Most of the current beers have been named to reflect the moment - Covid Cure IPA, Corona Buster IPA, Pandemic Porter and Hazy SIP (“Shelter-in-Place”) IPA - and a menu board lists particulars like alcohol content and bitterness. The office has been closed during the pandemic, but Dickinson - the company’s only current brewer - has kept the taproom maintained for employees who stop by to pick something up (or fill a growler). Pint glasses and smaller taster glasses - branded with the Sandis logo, of course - fill shelves below the taps, and glass-topped pony kegs serve as coffee tables holding bottles of water and bar snacks. “The idea of putting together a taproom kind of came to fruition,” said Dickinson, who with colleagues combined civil engineering experience and brewing knowledge to outfit a five-tap refrigerated system. And then came the move to Campbell, where there was a small conference room near the reception desk no one was sure what to do with. “It’s a little bit of a unique culture, and we want people to be creative and show their creativity.”Ībout a year into the beermaking, the brewers bottled about 20 gallons of beer that was given to clients for the holidays, which was a big hit. “It’s a nice way to show there’s something beyond what we do for a living, and to be able to share it together and with a select group of clients,” he said. Sandis President Jeff Setera says the brewing became an outlet for employees to exhibit their passions outside of work. “We started brewing for company events, and it kind of became a little happy hour kind of thing.” Nate Dickinson, an associate principal at Sandis, pours a beer in the taproom at the company’s Campbell headquarters.
“When our management found out that’s what we were doing, they thought it was great,” said Nate Dickinson, an associate principal with the firm. A few employees were homebrewers and they started bringing their equipment to work, making beer during downtime in the office. The beermaking tradition started years ago when the company was located in Sunnyvale.
But you probably wouldn’t guess that Sandis, a civil engineering firm headquartered on Winchester Boulevard, is home to the best secret taproom in the valley. If someone wanted to know where to get a good beer in Campbell, there would be no shortage of answers.
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