Day 2 - Project Setup and Opening Ceremonies

The team was up and on the way to breakfast shortly after 7:30, and in fact we were all done eating long before the Orientation meeting was to start at 9:00am. So we took a bit of a stroll around the Cafeteria area, and Dan showed the team the Tim Horton's he found earlier... not sure this was an impressive spot to visit, but the rain outside kept us from wandering too far.



Orientation welcomed us all to the 2011 fair and covered some of the basics, and soon we were off to the exhibit hall for Project Setup. Setup proceeded with very few issues - a broken abstract stand and an unfortunately placed spelling error were the most serious, and easily corrected.



Soon we were off to lunch, and then the students had an hour to spend in the exhibit hall while the adult delegates had a briefing, which I (George) managed to miss with a feeble excuse of helping fix stuff.

Once that was done, we were back to the residence to change and then off to the Opening Ceremonies Banquet - after the huge line for the busses, that is.



The Banquet was very nice - good food, and an interesting 50th-anniversary retrospective of the Canada-Wide Science Fair. Oh, and dancers, too.



After we got back from dinner (this time we beat the lineup for the busses!), a bit more free time - some more battles with the Evil Ball, some juggling, some and some XBox Kinect (which I do not have photos for yet).



Then off to bed, though many were watching the end of the Vancouver Hockey Game first...

Monday will bring the first school tours, and chance for everyone to sharpen their presentations before Judging on Tuesday.

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