17/7 Group 5 Reflection

17/7
Group 5
Victoria Ip
Kathy Lau
Tivona Yeung
Joanna Keung
Jacqueline Lo

As we are into the second week of the program, we started to take classes at the Stanford campus once again. Our first lesson was cracking codes. In the very beginning, we were given a task to crack codes of boxes with several clues and red herrings. It was confusing at first, but the task taught us about the importance of collaboration and that working together does make the whole progress much more efficient. In the lesson, we were also taught about different methods of encrypting messages, cracking them and how cracking codes evolved throughout the years.

The next session was Engineering. It was out of our expectation the content was about optical phenomena. It turned out to be the most interesting lesson for us. Instead of lectures, the teacher chose another method for us to learn which was by doing experiments with gummy bears and M&Ms. We also learned about holograms. We found holograms fun as we searched for different hologram videos. We learnt a lot about properties of light, such as reflection and refraction of light. We all had learnt a lot and the information was very useful.

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