Primarily this task involved research and modelling. Although our original scope was not completed, the models came together in the end and were technically sound. In one day our present team members (5 total) worked hard and finished the model, prepared a poster and developed a power point presentation. The next day we presented our work infront of a dury of about 10 middle aged men. Luckily for us the judges where very technical and serious, which was advantageous to the format of our presentation as suggested by our coach. Also two of our team members had excellent knowledge in this field and were able to confidently answer the judges left field questions. Although the experience itself was so amazing, the icing on the cake came when our team was placed first out of the 15 multinational teams.
The team working hard preparing our model, poster and presentation.
Nervous photo before facing the judges.
The team very excited after coming first out of 15 Young Engineering Teams, WEC2011.
The conference opening session with many representatives from Kuwait sponsors.
Swiss friend managed to get us into an WEC event at a nearby university for free. This building is seriously amazing.
The food at this event probably cost more than my entire months food budget. Met the president of KFEO (Korean Federation of Engineering Organisation). He was a Civil Engineer, we ended up talking about Civil engineering applications in space! Dreams do come true right?
I really like the design of these bins
The city of Geneva hosted the WEC2011 convention. After having visited the rich, business like, clean and historic city of Zurich, Geneva did not even seem related. As pointed out by a team member all buildings in the city center were the same height of about 7 stories, making navigation hard at times. When standing at the train station we saw about 3+ very public drug dealers, with one of them doing business with 2-3 customers per minute! The highest denomination of coins in Switzerland is approximately $7AUD so it was very entertaining to see people buying a hit with only a few coins.
I was very lucky to have a friend show me some of the "underground" style clubs in the area. The Swiss really know how to hide there best places from the tourists. Truly amazing experience. The first one we visited was in what looked like an abandoned building. Features- ping pong table, very cool random art. The second one had a courtyard that looked like it was from a fairytale.
Behind these walls lye amazing little night spots.
The red light district here is huge. This is where you find the cheap food.
This is one of the buildings at the United Nations- Geneva
The famous water jet of Lake Geneva
Geneva is like the product of shaking the world around and seeing what people get mixed together. So many differnet cultures and faces. At times walking the street of Geneva felt like walking in some messed up time warp. People where dressed in clothes from all decades in this last century. One small example of this made me realise why burquas are cool- they can hold your mobile phone to your ear, so you have two hands free.
Very unique city where sometimes you don't know which way is up.
Geneva is like the product of shaking the world around and seeing what people get mixed together. So many differnet cultures and faces. At times walking the street of Geneva felt like walking in some messed up time warp. People where dressed in clothes from all decades in this last century. One small example of this made me realise why burquas are cool- they can hold your mobile phone to your ear, so you have two hands free.
Very unique city where sometimes you don't know which way is up.
Dreaming over Denmark.
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