Today was public viewing day. The students had to be at their projects today from 10 am until 2 pm. They are all tired after yesterday, so we decide to let them sleep in and get breakfast on their own. Over 6,000 elementary and high school students from all over this region descended on the Fair today.
The students have chains across the front of their booths to keep the younger students away from their displays. Kent, feeling a little caged I guess, puts a note on the front of his booth saying "Please don't feed the finalists". They are all given vouchers for a box lunch, so we don't need to organize that meal either.
Chaperones spend the day having the opportunity to actually visit the Fair, and see projects. Stef takes the opportunity to take a picture of each of the students at their project (pictures now posted on the link I provided earlier this week)
There's an opportunity in the afternoon to visit Stanford University. Stef accompanies four of the students on this trip, while the rest of us get the others organized for dinner. We head back to Flames (where we had breakfast earlier this week). We are joined by the students and chaperones from Alberta.
After dinner, we head over to the Awards ceremony for Government and Special Awards.
When we arrive there's a slide show presentation scrolling through of "interesting facts".
Some of these include
a) an eyelash lives about five months
b) your eyeballs are 3.5% salt
c) the average cocoon containes 300 - 400 m of silk
d) no President of the United States has been an only child
e) silicon is the most abundant element on earth, next to oxygen
After some brief introductions, the Awards ceremony begins.
It was a great night for Canada!!!
Google was a brand new sponsor this year, and they offered nine awards .. two runners up and a winner in each of three categories.
In the Google "Cross Disciplinary Award" category, Chris from Calgary was a runner up, and received a $1,000 award.
In the Google "Future of Energy" category, Dheevesh from Mississauga was the $10,000 winner! Only problem was, he was one of the students who had gone with Stef to Harvard, and they weren't back yet!
American Psychological Association - 1st prize of $1500 went to Adelina from Richmond Hill
Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Psychology - $15K renewable at that level for 4 years (ie $60K in total!) went to Adelina. She also received a $1500 cash award for Excellence in Psychology
Int. Council on Systems Enginnering - 1st prize of $1500 went to Gary from Calgary
National Anti-Vivisection Society - 2nd prize of $2000 went to Vivian from Oakville
Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology - 1st prize went to Adelina.
We head back to the hotel, then a group decide that an ice cream party is in order, so a large group head out to Ben and Jerry's to celebrate!
We set curfew for midnight again, and are looking forward to the Grand Awards tomorrow morning.
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