The Super Expciences Bell is the national final of regional ExpoSciences fares in Québec. At these fares, students from High School to CÉGEP (comes after High School in Québec) can present their scientific projects. Projects are reviewed and marked. The best ones are invited to travel to international sciences fares or to the Canadian final.
Going through the computer related projects and health projects that interested me, I have to admit the quality of the projects is surprisingly high. The following projects have retained my attention:
As a former graduate student of the university hosting the fare (ie École de technologie supérieure) and active participant in a computer science industry, I’ve been invited to participate into the Future Dinner. It was the occasion for the students to meet with people from many industries and talk to them about their work. I’ve meet very enthusiast and dynamic persons. I’ve explained to them my personal life and how I ended up doing open source software. I hope I’ve been usefull in their process of choosing a career.
On the technical side: all the projects were created using open source tools and that was heart warming to see. To the eyes of the young, the future is open.
I bought myself a new digital camera a Nikon D40 since my old one (Canon A95) broke last week end. It is my first SLR and I have to admit: I like it! Wow, it’s like I never shot a picture before. The quality is so good and controls easy to access. This will make wonderful pictures next week in Dominican Republic
Not that I never made nice pictures before, until now I preferred to keep the pictures on my personnal site. With that camera, I guess it’ll take too much space. flickr comes in. I am surprised at how easy it is to use and the pro version is only 25$ per year. I mean: that’s all I need. You can see my pictures here or here.
Never the less, if Yahoo is ever bought by Microsoft, I will consider seriously deleting all my pictures.
