Today was a busy day... After getting up for breakfast, we were off to the Project Hall to do our project setups... This was also our first experience with how far away the Projects are from our residence. A good 10 to 15 minutes walk, each way... and it's a roundtrip we did three times today. With many more to come before the week is over!
Project setup went smoothly, and in no time everyone was set up and all the projects were looking great. We had a few extra minutes before lunch so we all took a walk down to the Windsor waterfront, which has a nice trail and park area. A quick walk back and it was lunch time, and then time to walk over to the Project Hall for the first round of public viewing.
The viewing event today was rather low-key, but it gave everyone a chance to practice up on their presentations a bit, as well as an opportunity to talk to other students in the display hall. A lot of great projects this year from all over the country.
Public viewing ended at 4:30pm, so it was a leisurely walk back to dinner, and then it was over to the Project display building (one more time!) for the Opening Ceremonies. There was the usual combination of entertainment and speeches, and also the announcement of this year's Canada-Wide Alumni Award winner - Michael Serbinis, a science fair competitor from the early 1990s that went on to found a number of high-tech companies including "Kobo", the e-reader company. Michael is an alumnus of BASEF as well, just like the first winner last year, Ben Gulak.
After the Opening Ceremonies, we had some free time and the team chose to take another walk down to the waterfront. In between the sightseeing Dan also arranged for some time for the team to practice their presentations by explaining their projects to other members of the BASEF team.
After a busy day, it was back to the residence ... tomorrow is a student-oriented project viewing activity in the morning, and then some Science-oriented events in the afternoon.
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