As you could've guessed, the entire Michigan delegation spent the night pulling nerd tricks on each other and were pretty exhausted for the public viewing day. Public viewing entailed busloads of local school children coming to the hall to ask finalists about their research and results. The public viewing day was relatively relaxed, where finalists could wear casual attire and were not required to stay at their project sites.

A couple of board neighbors and I walked around the hall meeting other finalists from around the world by pretending that we were a group of Chinese immigrants who could barely speak English, and then later revealing that we were just pulling a good-natured joke on them. That night we had a special awards ceremony for all of the professional awards given by companies such as the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Mathematics Society, just to name a few that the Michigan group won.