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Waterloo 7

May 16, 2018 / BY Marc Crompton
Here it is.  The last night of the trip.  It's been a great time and I can see that many of the boys have grown a lot.  First, a recap of the day, and then some thoughts about the trip.  The day started with our regular brains on activity.  Today it was cup stacking.  I will admit that I had an opportunity to...

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Waterloo 6

May 16, 2018 / BY Marc Crompton
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...

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Waterloo 5

May 15, 2018 / BY Marc Crompton
Monday brought a lot of activity starting with the concept of things having the potential to be and not be at the same time.  Quantum Mechanics is being used in quantumcryptography to secure information travelling digitally around the world.  The boys explored this idea by sending and receiving crypto keys using lasers and the concepts around quantumcryptography.  From here we travelled to a...

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Weekend Update

May 14, 2018 / BY Marc Crompton
We've had a busy weekend!  While the students' reflections will be far more detailed and personal than mine, I'll give you a run down of the last couple of days with a few pictures.  Saturday began and ended with some serious work, but was mainly a trip out to Stratford to see the Stratford Festival production of The Tempest.  In sequence: First, we...

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Day 3

May 12, 2018 / BY Marc Crompton
Today was a day of culminations.  We finished up our Virtual Reality (VR) designs and took them over to @CTRLV to try them out.  It was exciting to see the boys take images that were designed in a flat 2 dimensional environment and actually walk (or jump, or fall off of) through that world.  The boys also seemed to really enjoy playing in...

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