Finalists Interact With Each Other and Science Workshops

This was a day of preparation and workshops. From a weather perspective, we had several electrical storms throughout the day and lots of periodic rain showers here in Windsor. It was a bit humid, sticky and warm. We started the morning with going down for breakfast at 8AM again, and we planned out what our Finalists were to do. While Susan and I were at a 3 hour delegate meeting, our team was back at the Exhibit Hall visiting other participants' projects. They were able to see some of the other exiting innovative projects out there as well as meet new friends. At our delegates' meeting but in her absence, Susan Hunter-Jivung was presented the Canadian Association of Physicists 2014 Excellence in Teaching Award. Susan Martin and I were proud to accept the prestigious award on her behalf.  Well done Susan!

We met for lunch at noon and then rushed off to our afternoon workshops. Susan took Denny, Sonia, Chirag, Kashish, Arman and Cindy to St. Claire College to attend workshops on Cardiovascular Technology and Pharmacy Technology.  I accompanied Devika and Meaghan to a workshop on Mechanical Engineering. We learned about and built hydrogen cars then raced them.  The two workshops were relatively long and our teams were starting to get exhuasted (mentally) with information overload

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The group arrived back at their rooms by 5PM and had some much needed down time for about an hour. Dinner for us was at 6PM and shortly after that, Denny, Cindy, Devika, Meaghan, Arman, Kashish and Chirag got some coaching about their presentations from several judging members of the CWSF. They all received good actionable feedback that they can incorporate into their presentations tomorrow. Sonia who's been here for the third time was exhausted and passed on the coaching.

When the bulk of our Finalists were done with the coaching, Susan distributed the coveted pins among our team. We sat down around a small table in the commons area and it was like they had just walked into a candy store. Their eyes lit up like Christmas trees and were very excited. The kids all wish to thank Karen Morley for supplying them.

After the pin trading a few wanted to practice their presentations on each other. Susan and I encouraged that but insisted they get a good nights sleep. So for Judging Eve, it was lights out at 10PM.

With today's inclement weather, there wasn't a tremendous amount of walking.

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