Today was kinda special. After a long travel we had the opportunity of participating in a meeting with Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, a retired astronaut from NASA. She was on a steam center in order to encourage new generations telling them about her story. Also after she ended her presentation we could speak with her, take photos and ask some questions.

In our first day of work Eglé, gave Paulo Paulino the keys for the new room that would be our workspace. Situated in th 3rd floor, we spent about an our organizing and moving the desks that were in the room, so we could make it more comfortable and efficcient for working.

Today it was kinda boring/calm. This time I didn't have any activitie related to hardware, but anyways I got something to keep moving. I was again helping Diogo with the website for EMO STEAM. But now I would have the task of making a logo by my own (A.I made sources forbidden). So today I was putten on the skin of a designer.

EMO STEAM

The project aims to develop a methodology for enhancing emotional intelligence through STEAM activities, supplementedby interactive materials, a board/online game, an assessment tool, and stakeholder recommendations, accessible to allschools.

Today we had a free day. In the morning we decided to go to a laundry near to the hotel to get our clothes clean. We spent around 2 hours in there because we also had to use the dryer, due to the weather.

Today is our first saturday in Vilnius. So we decided to look around and visit some cultural places. The first one we visited was the Gediminas Castle Tower. It was located in the top of a little mountain. We had the freedom to choose if we wanted to use the elevator to get to the top or get there by walking in a route. For using the elevator we'd have had to pay 2€ per person, so we decided to walk, it wasn't that hard and we took some pictures in the way up. We had to pay a ticket for 4€ per person to enter to the tower. There were some interesting things and in the 3nd floor they had a projector with what I suppose was a film about the history of the tower.

After we left the tower, we went to the Vilnius Cathedral. We took lots of pictures and inside of it there were lots of rooms we also saw. It looks such a very very huge cathedral but at the moment you enter in, you found out that it's actually smaller than it looks outside. We didn't have to pay anything to get in and it was an interesting place. 

After our lunch we went to the Vilnius Museum Of Illusions. We paid 9€ each. When I first saw the museum I though it was an overpriced price, but now I think it's a fair price for what they offer. The girls that work in there were really friendly and they interacted a lot with used while we were looking everything. It was really funny and I think it's a place that everyone who comes to Vilnius must visit. Also it's interesting the way they explain hor those illusions work.  

This sunday we went to trakai. I though we'd only see the castle and get bored, but actually we enjoyed it a lot. The walk we took from the train station to the castle allowed us to also see more of trakai, and not only the castle. We had to pay 5€ to enter to the castle, that isn't that expensive for the things you gonna see there. The castle is huge and really fun to see. It even had a machine for making your own souvenirs. We all took lot of photos all around the castle. It felt like the castle was seperated in 2 big areas. The first one not that big, with some tools they used to use at the time, and the second one located deeper, not at the beggining but basically at the end of the walls. It was bigger in height and I think the stuff that was there was more interesting than the thingss we had saw in the beginning.

Today I got to to continue my work with the logo, this time I completely changed my main idea and started again from the beginning, trying to create a logo based in STEAM. Which would have that word written by draws of pictures related to the project.

Today I got to work in some laptops our teacher brought me. The principal objective was to make them work faster. There were 4 of them but only 3 chargers, so I firstly started with 3 and then continued with the last one. Most of them were normal working, but I anyways did some stuff such deleting temporal files and defragmenting the disks. Just to improve their speed.

In this day I didnt do much, but finish the task was given to me last day. Since I had problems trying to use HirensBoot. Last day i couldn't delete the temporal files or start the disk defragmetion. This day I completed it and tried to help my mates around in their tasks while I had nothing to do. Then, our teacher Eglé came to our office and showed me some of the tasks I'd have for the next week. Basically I'll have more or less 13 computers to check. They are not being used, but since the moment they want to see if they can use it for anything. I got the task to make them work if possible :)

I believe Im going to have fun next week :D

This friday was also such a free day, but not at all. We went to the laundry before taking the breakfast to get our clothes washed. After that, we had lunch and went to the museum of energy and technology. There we decided to pay for tesla and electricity exposition, which basically explains some of the inventions of him and also get us to know more about the performance of dynamos and basic eletronic components. We loved it, they had lot of things with which we could interact and have fun at the end of the explanation. Some of them were about charging a battery doing specific tasks and them using this energy to make the exposed things to work.  

For today we had planned to visit Kaunas. Anyways, we didn't, because if we had gone there, we would have missed the Vilnius Music Festival. An Event that takes place here in Vilnius, every year. We walked a lot on this day but we were able not only to listen to some local musicians, but also there were famous singers all in different places of the city. When we got back to the hotel at the night everyone was tired, but we all agreed, it was a good experience.

Today we went to Kaunas. We were thinking on taking a free day because we were tired due to the music festival. But at the end, we decided to go. When we got there it was already midday, so decided to firstly buy our lunch and then start looking the city. After finishing eating we stared walking around, we visited some places, incluiding akropolis and the church of st. michael the archangel. During our time there we felt  kinda of lonely, since the city looked kinda of empty compared with trakai or vilnius, but we are not sure if it's because it was sunday. Also we had fun but since we were tired from last day we didn't enjoy as much as we could have.

Anyways, it was a good experience and there goes another city we visited in Lithuania :)) 

Today I was planning to start looking the computers they showed me last week, but Eglé had found another task for me for this day. Basically, there's was a person that got a new computer, in which he would work since now. But he had some data he wanted to transfer from his old computer for his new one. I accepted the task and started to work on it inmedietly. My first though was switching the disks but since the new computer has a warranty, it's better not to open in. I decide to ask my teacher if they could get me an usb to sata adapter, and they did it. So, I firstly opened the old PC, to take off the disks and connect them to the new pc throw the adapter, in order to do a clonation with a clonation tool that comes with hirens boot. I firstly tried connecting the ssd to see in which disk the windows system was installed at. Next, after checking that, I'd see how much data there's saved in the hdd, so i could have an idea of how long it would take. 

Unexpectedtly, after connecting the hdd the same way I did with the ssd. There started to come smoke out of the hdd, so I fastly unplugged it. But after trying, the hdd didn't work anymore. I communicated the situation to my teacher. I was really sad for what happened since I don't really know the reason of it. They we're not mad at me but I still wanna find a way to fix or at least recover that data :/

Today I got the task of verifying some tablets, 28 of them. My job was to delete all photos that children took during lessons. Also they asked me to disable the access to camera aplication if possible. So first thing I did was searching abt how to disbable the camera for that version of android. Since I didn't find anything I'd create a new profile in every tablet, which would have some restrictions. The main profile will stay the same, but now it would require a password to access it. The profile destinated to the children wouldn't have acess to camera and would be named as "tabX" in which "X" is the number of the tablet.

On this day I continued working on the tablets. At the moment there are 20 tablets ready, but for completing the other 8 I'll have to restore all default settings, so I'm waiting for more instructions. They all are fully charged and prepared to be restored, but I won't do it yet since I'm waiting for an answer of them allowing me to do it.

Finally after postponing it for a bit, I got started with my main quest. I brought all the computers that I spoke about last friday to our office/workspace and started my journey. Firstly,  I started by organizing everything and separating the olders computers of these that had newer motherboards. Most of them didn't have ram or a disk to boot, so for now I would start testing the power supplies and motherboard to find out what works and what doesn't.

Today we went to the Molėtai Astronomical Observatory. The trip was long but it was worth it. When we got there Professor Egle surprised us with meat cakes she made by herself and then we went straight to the observatory cafeteria. where we could relax a bit while we waited for our guide. After a while we started the tour to the place where we could see constellations and various ancient artefacts linked to astronomy. We finished seeing the museum, moved to the observatory room and got to see some sun's filaments through a telescope with 2 differents filters.

Today we decided to take a day off. Firstly, we did our laundry in the morning and while we were waiting for our clothes to get dry, we ate in meatbusters. The hamburger was good but nothing special. I bought also something that looked like fried bread, but at the end it was fried carrot and I didn't like it at all. The rest of the day, some of us walked and explored vilnius since I slept and also went to buy a new piercing before the dinner.

Today we went to Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights, also known as "KGB Museum".  It was such a good experience since it wasn't only a museum, but also a prision, in which we could find jail, small rooms and other interesting things. You can get to know a lot about Lithuania and it's history related to when it was part of the sovietic union. There was also a room which was visited for the Papa in person. The building has 3 floors and also a few jails in the outside, but that also is part of the museum.

After visiting the museum we went to CUP shopping and had a lunch in Subway. For some of us it was their first time eating there, not my case, but I'm happy all liked and enjoyed their lunchs

Today, since I got more computers last day, I started to check and look for better components and newer motherboards to use. I found 3 ddr4 compatible motherboards which had ram, so I decided to built the computers in them. We only had 2 ddr4 RAM sticks so we were thinking on asking Valentina if he had any other ddr4 RAM that he wouldn't use anymore. We also had to swap the cases because we didnt have all the covers from the original cases that the motherboards we would use were at. We got some computers to work already and they had windows already. But I decided it would be better for us to delete all data doing a reset or new installation next day.

Today Paulo and I changed some processors that we found in ddr3 compatible motherboards but that would work aswell in the newer motherboards. The processors we used were all the same, the 6th generation Intel Core i3. It was the best one we could find. While reseting the data from a computer, we would take care of the  other 2, install the new processors and also put fresh thermal paste. Paulo knows a lot about hardware. That surprised me since the rest of his classmates were not that comfortable with this kind of manual works. He was really helpful and thanks to him I could do everything faster, since I had someone else to rely on :)

We got to the plane and hopefully, we were all of us, the 6 students, sitting right next to each other. So we could speak and spend more time during the flight. I was sleeping most of the time. Also me and Diogo ate some mcdonalds burguers we had bought in the morning before lunch.

After that we safely got to Lisbon. In our hotel I took a bath or half an hour (it was really good and the water was warm), we ordered food and then we fell asleep while watching movies.