This day started at 12:00am last night as an extension of yesterday when we were still working furiously on our DE Project presentations to get them done before the presentation today. After a short, um, "nap," we got up bright and early to continue working on our presentations. We ran down to breakfast at the cafeteria and then headed over to the computer lab five minutes from residences to finalize our presentation for this evening. We all worked on trying to get our presentation done in time, pulling the different parts from each person in the group together into one coherent presentation.
Who was going to say what at the presentation was worked out and we rushed over to the rehearsal at the Senate Room at Carleton. We rehearsed our presentation once and got feedback from two staff members present at rehearsals and then rushed back to residences to make as many last-minute changes to our presentation as we could and to get changed for the presentations that afternoon. Our group rushed together back to the presentations for the real thing.
All of our group members listened nervously together as the other three groups gave their presentations. Once the presentations were finished, all 48 of us grouped together for a picture. All the Shads from all the different groups were really supportive of each other after the presentations had ended. Everyone in our group was really proud of what we had accomplished and were all so proud of our idea and our presentation.
After dinner the judges gave us feedback on all four of our presentations and then as a group all of us voted on who we wanted to go on to the Shad Cup and who would continue working on the winning project.
Brett Bolkowy
Shad Valley Carleton
Hometown: St. Albert, Alberta
