Breaks when running on colab or local

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I'm testing predictHQ. I got failures both when running on colab and when running locally in a clean env. Issues with no .to_dict() method on Events (now is .dict() I think). Also an issue with how the params was passed into .search() - fixed by passing in **params so it'd unpack into kwargs. This was on python 3.13. Not sure if you only support lower versions

[convergenceIM]

also latitude and latitude_store don't match on the kwargs. Good practice to be consistent so we dont' need to rely on positional arguments