Day 4 - Judging Day!

This is the big day - time for Judging!


An early start to the morning as everyone gathered in the lounge before heading off to breakfast.

It wasn't long before it was time to take the walk over to the project hall, and judging began.  The morning was primarily Merit Judging, for the gold/silver/bronze medals, and each student had five judges come to interview them.  When the lunch break came, everyone reported that judging went well, and the pre-judging nervousness was finally gone.

After lunch there was another round of judging, this time primarily for special awards.  Again nobody reported any problems or horror stories, and when judging wrapped up at 5:00pm there were a lot of smiles to be seen!


After Judging there was dinner (roast chicken and mashed potatoes!), and then preparation for the "Charlottetown Challenge".  All science fair participants split up into one of 50 teams, and each team was presented with a series of scavenger-hunt type challenges to collect points.  The destinations involved buildings on campus and also at nearby locations around UPEI.  Team BASEF people in "group 4" headed south and ran into some confusion after their first destination, and though they walked a considerable distance their final point total was a bit low.  The rest of Team BASEF in "group 3" combined with some students from elsewhere in Ontario, and using a combination of speed and cunning accumulated somewhat more points.  But everyone had a great time, although they were pretty tired by the end!

A few of the team remained at the finalist lounge after the Challenge was over, and there were a few games and other distractions to keep them busy until everyone crawled off to bed after a long, tiring, but successful day.

Tomorrow we get ready for the PEI Tour Day - everyone is looking forward to it, but the early start (up at 6:30am for breakfast!) will not be a favorite part of the day.

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