Day 2

Monday, 3rd December 2012

After a great and refreshing night's rest, we woke to a delicious breakfast courtesy of the wonderful trinity dining room.

All fed and ready to go, we met once again with our coordinator, Adia, who brought us on an exciting and informative tour of UWA's grounds. We ventured through the university grounds, beholding the history and heritage behind the various buildings and structures. It was very informative and an absolute feast to the eyes! Here are some pictures of our tour.

During the tour, we also met up with our friends from NUS high. Here's a group shot in front of the beautiful UWA'S entrance. Hello friends!

We had a great time exploring UWA's grounds, after which our friends at UWA treated us to a sumptuous welcome morning tea.  We were graciously welcomed by the University's head of physics and vice-dean with a heartfelt and warming speech.

They welcomed us with open arms and expressed their desires for many more future collaborations between CJC and UWA.

We were then allowed an opportunity to explore the University's high tech and amazing research labs, guided around by our kind hosts. They introduced us to their jaw-dropping research work and experiments that was ongoing deep in the lab. Some of the machinery was so sophisticated, they left us in awe and wonder when they explained how the experiments worked.

It was such an eventful morning! After which we returned to our hostel for lunch (we already had so much in the morning!). After which we were split into our various research groups, and were taken to meet our facilitators.

It was a very informative and educational afternoon with our research groups. In the evening, Dr Andre Fletcher brought us to the rooftops of the UWA physics department for a night of star gazing.

In the cool night air and breeze on the rooftops, Dr Andre displayed UWA’s stunning collection of telescopes, for viewing the many stars in the starry sky that night. With his help, we got to view stars such as Jupiter and Orion. For many of us this was a first time seeing stars through a telescope, and we all found it informative and interesting. We even were treated to a demonstration of UWA’s radio telescope, which was a wonderful ending to a magical night with the stars. With that, we went to bed in high spirits.