Saturday March 11, 2006

I had my last judging interview in the morning. It was the first and only one I thought went ``well''--and that was only because I'd calibrated my expectations with the first three, which I walked out of feeling like an absolute idiot! As we finished with interviews, we piled onto shuttle buses to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to set up our project exhibits. Some people had sent their boards already assembled; others of us needed to do a bit of construction. We all also had to get our pictures taken professionally with our posters, and give short film interviews about our projects. Overall it was a bit of a break, a chance not to be judged for a little while between interviews and public project exhibition.

I set up my board on Saturday afternoon. (Photo by Adam Solomon)

In the evening, we met to vote on this year's Seaborg speaker, who represents the class at the final banquet by giving a short speech. Although there were at least fifteen initial nominations, we eventually chose Carmi unanimously. We've since planned out his presidential campaign.