Day 7 was public visits day and Special Awards Ceremony at night. Finalists were supposed to stand by their booths and introduce their project to the public.
National Museum of Crime and Punishment?
There were many, many visitors of all ages from the public, and there were many "tour groups" walking around. Many Japanese visitors stopped by my booth :)
After some time at my booth I started visiting the other booths because I hardly had time to do that before judging day.
A project on Matrices!
Drum Pants. A device you put in your jeans so slapping your thighs makes a drumming sound.
Complicated-looking water sanitation machine.
Multidimensional Integration based on a Monte Carlo Method
Every finalist had some lunch coupons to buy food from Los Angeles Convention Center, but I misplaced them so I bought my own lunch from Quizno's. Turns out I had put the coupons inside my bag and forgotten about them.
The Singapore delegation had dinner with Dr. Wulf Hofbauer (The ISEF judge from Singapore) at California Pizza Kitchen. Dr. Wulf is the kind of person who talks freely about anything so we got on pretty well. When we were reading the menu and deciding out orders, I voiced my concern that we might order too much and not be able to finish everything. Dr. Wulf replied, "Oh yes, we have to be careful, I read on some blog that on the first day of ISEF, someone went to the Original Pantry Cafe and he couldn't finish his Fish and Chips."
If you don't get his reference... nevermind.
I had three slices of this pizza as well as a slice or two of another pizza with avocado chunks on it.
The climax of the day was definitely the Special Awards Ceremony. In the same huge hall as the Opening Ceremony, representatives from different agencies/societies/organizations went on stage one by one to give their awards.
My supervisor (rightmost) got the Agilent Teacher Award!
I won the Association for Computing Machinery's Second Award! All Singaporean finalists have to wear bright red blazers so it should be pretty easy to find me.
I also won the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Society's Second Prize:
See that lanyard I'm wearing? It's covered with my favorite pins from the Pin Exchange Ceremony, and it's one of my favorite souvenirs from ISEF :)
The First Prize winner for that award gets a printed copy of the first patent ever made :)
The following are some cool awarding organizations.
Cute logo and cool guy
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