This symposium was an amazing experience. It will be a catalyst for further study, and served as an inspiration for me, both as a teacher and designer. I came home with four different puppets, and while I am still a novice, we learned the underlying principles of puppetry, resources available, and preliminary manipulation towards performance. Also, we learned how to apply these aspects to a variety of modes beyond the four styles we worked with hands-on. I am now comfortable including a puppetry component in my Costume Crafts class and would like to develop a semester long course covering this subject and it's history. In two weeks, I am leading a shadow puppet workshop at the InterArts retreat with 15 undergraduate students. I am also the costume designer for our upcoming production of A Midsummer NIght's Dream which will involve puppetry to stage the fairies. In the long term, we are planning a large scale shadow puppet performance in the exterior light "cube" of the Arthur Miller theatre as part of the Theatre Dept's 100th anniversary celebration. On a side note, it was refreshing to be a student again. I was invigorated by the lead instructor and carefully observed his teaching style. He was organized, effective and encouraging and always kept his sense of humor.