Not a lot to report today.  It was a simple day that involved a lot of time working through some important projects.  The day started with a cool trip to the MultiScale Additive Manufacturing Lab where they are focused entirely on 3D printing technologies involved with printing metal.  There are three styles of printer that all use slightly different methods of attaching small grains of metal powders together in layers to form objects.  If all they did way 3D printer with metal, that would be cool enough, but they are truly invested in studying the technology to allow advances in metal manufacturing methods and to increase the variety of different metals that are available for 3D printing. 
It was a fantastic way to look at 3D printing in general, but also to look at how one area of that larger field is working to progress and understand the implications of these new tools.

Following that trip, we hunkered down for few hours of work on two separate projects.  The first is to develop more intricate Virtual Reality (VR) environments that they will be able to test out tomorrow at a VR arcade.  It was interesting to see how invested the boys were in developing these skills and developing these environments. 
The second was the longer-term Create Value project where they made some headway in identifying clients or users who they might create value for.  They tried to define their problems as clearly as possible so that they will be able to develop solutions over the next few days.  They will be given $20 for each pair of students and they will pitch their solutions to entrepreneurs on our last full day.


After a hard day of indoor work, we then took the 20 minute walk through the park to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an amazing building where people come from all over the world to ask the big questions about how the universe works from the tiniest particles to the largest bodies in space.  We got to walk through many of the spaces used to share ideas and develop new ones, and attempt to decipher intricate equations that were scrawled across pretty much every inch of every chalkboard in the place.  Many of us found this to be an inspiring space to be in.

We finished the day with pizza in the park and time to kick a ball around and generally let off some steam.  We're looking forward to our trip to @CTRLV tomorrow, the VR arcade for some development and testing time, and perhaps a little fun!  Enjoy the pictures.