MIT – Day 3

I didn’t get a chance to finish my post on day 3 on that day since we were up pretty late doing stuff. So here it is now. :)

Today was the first day of the showcase where all the teams showed off their inventions they’ve been working on for the past eight months. All of the teams’ inventions were pretty cool and some of them were incredible like the solar surveyor that uses a camera to take pictures of its surroundings and processes the image to identify obstructions in addition to locating the direction of the sun. There was also an invention for quardapelgics to turn on lights and other appliances by shining a laser attached to the user’s head at a sensor. Here’s our invention, the Smart Watering-Irrigation System, or SWIS. It’s a automatic plant watering device that waters plants based on the moisture content of the soil.

SWIS

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MIT – Day 2

The Freedom TrailToday was much more active I have to say. We walked along The Freedom Trail which winds through Boston past notable and historic landmarks. It was pretty interesting I guess. We went through a graveyard where Paul Revere is buried, one where Ben Franklin’s parents are buried, and yet another one where apparently the first woman to step off the Mayflower is buried although we never found her tombstone. We also took a ferry around the wharf. Here’s a picture of Boston I took from the ferry.

Ferry

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