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 their own and each others worlds as well.  Of course, having the opportunity to then play commercially created games was fun too!

The afternoon brought us a little time to work on our Create Value Challenge (you can read about the parameters of that here if you have not already done so) before our mentors came to discuss the boys' personal projects.  For more than an a hour, each boy had a chance to discuss the ideas that they'd been working on for months with faculty, graduate students, and industry professional.  The conversations that I overheard and the discussions that I had with the boys afterward indicate that most of them were excited by the feedback and encouragement that they received.  I'm hoping that they will be inspired to continue their work and develop their ideas further.

The evening brought a web-based wild goose chase where they got to run around the campus with current students and residence staff.  They were asked to take pictures of themselves performing tasks such as finding an underground mine, recreate the famous Titanic scene, identifying campus landmarks, and spelling names of campus landmarks with their bodies.  These pictures were sent to a program where the organizers (Saint's teachers and residence staff) could encourage them and keep score.  Enjoy the pictures!