Waterloo 6

by - May 16, 2018

Wow!  We're getting close to the end of the trip.  It feels like we just arrived and the time has flown by, but at the same time, it's been forever since we've slept in our own beds.  Tuesday was an other busy day, centred around the implementation of the Create Value challenge.  But before we get to that...

The day started with a trip over to E2 (Engineering 2), one of the oldest buildings on campus.  We were there to do our brains on activity and get bodies moving and everyone communicating.  The task was to replicate a drawing.  Seems simple, but when you gut multiple chefs into the mix, things can get interesting.  The drawing lived in one room with a single member of a team of 3.  They got to study the drawing and had to describe it to a messenger (who was not allowed to see it).  The messenger, then went down the hall to another room where a budding artist sat ready to replicate this great work of art.  The messenger had to describe the drawing, but could not see what the artist was drawing.  We get some interesting abstract art, even when the original drawing supposed to be a simple cat!

We then headed to E1 and one of the campus makerspaces. In this space the boys were tasked with deconstructing a snowblower engine and then reconstructing it.  Surprisingly, there were few Ikea moments (you know - that point in assembling a piece of furniture to discover that there are 3 extra parts with some strange Swedish name that you have no idea what to do with).  For many of the boys, this seemed to be the first time that they'd ever worked on an engine before and learning how a combustion engine works and simply getting their hands dirty to pull something like this apart was a lot of fun. 

Lunch at an uptown cafe, Harmony, was followed by 3 hours of enacting their plan to create value on the streets of Waterloo.  It is hard to know at this point, exactly how successful each was.  The task of reporting on those experiences and presenting them to a panel of entrepreneurs is today's task.  But they seemed to have fun and watching the boys interact with the citizens of Waterloo on this project seemed to indicate that they were getting the results they desired.

A return to campus, dinner and a night of juggling wrapped up the day. 










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