Friday 7/26

We had guest speakers Marissa Tessman and Kimberly Prather give presentations on heir respective

Tessman spoke about creating biodegradable products out of organic polyurethane. 

Prather talked about the Scripps Ocean-Atmosphere Research Simulator and the different test they have done to examine the aerosols created by breaking waves in the sea. 

Saturday 7/27, Sunday 7/28

The nightly programming on Saturday was the Carnival! Everyone played fun carnival games, ate cotton candy, and took cute polaroids. 

On Sunday night, we had the annual COSMOS dance! People dressed up and danced to (okay) music.

Monday 7/29

We spent the morning in York Hall cleaning up the equipment from our biodiesel testing. In the afternoon, we started working on outlines of our final project presentations with the help of our cluster assistants.

Tuesday 7/30

While we worked on our presentations the entire day, we took a lunch break halfway and had a pizza party on the balcony of NSB. Dr. Pomeroy bought us pizza from Reagants and it was very delicious :). It was nice having a break from the Cafe Ventanas food.

Wednesday 7/31

Our posters were due at noon so that was the priority for the morning. After that, everyone finished their slides and started practicing their presentations.

Thursday 8/1

We spent the morning working on our presentations. The entire afternoon consisted of us giving practice presentations in front of the rest of the cluster, as well as Cluster 3.
We are excited to present what we have done to our parents but will miss everyone in our cluster!