We got an early start to the day to begin our trip back to Ann Arbor today! Though we’re sad to be leaving Chicago after such a fun trip, it will be good to be back home in Michigan. We’re really excited that Lindblom reached out to us after we left to help them start a SWENext chapter! We wanted to extend a huge thanks to Ford and the Ginsberg Center for their financial support, Bryan Enochs and Mariah Fiumara for all their help during and before the trip, and Lindblom Math

We began our free day in Chicago by going to the Shedd Aquarium. We were excited to see that the parking lot was mostly empty but were surprised with multiple school buses pulling up right as we were about to walk in. We loved seeing all of the animals and coming up with new SWE puns for the aquatic animals. SWEet Caroline loved looking at Lake Michigan with the Chicago Skyline in the background! Us in the Aquarium Gayle the SWhale (our gift to Bryan) with SWEet Caroline The

Today is our last day at Lindblom. :( On the drive to Lindblom, we discovered that Nina (radio host) did locate her keys, but her Uber driver is refusing to return them unless she gives him Justin Bieber concert tickets! At Lindblom, we did college Q&A sessions during the senior seminars. It was very cool to see that some of the students remembered us and told us they had fun doing the activities from the previous two days. We also pretended to be FIRST Robotics judges and gr

Today was our second day of activities at Lindblom High School! Once again, we woke up bright and early to make lunch, eat breakfast, and head out to Lindblom. On the way to Lindblom, we listened to Gabe and Nina on the radio and became a little too invested in Nina’s story about losing her keys. We had a couple new activities for today, including designing and building a prosthetic hand with limited materials and building a radio. We had some very creative ideas for the pros

It’s our first day at Lindblom! We woke up bright and early to pack our lunches, eat breakfast, and drive to Lindblom. It can be confirmed that no one misses how early we had to wake up while in high school. We had many activities for today: zipline, straw bridges, straw rockets, shark tank app design. The students were very creative for their team names! We were also impressed with the student’s creativity in the activities, especially with the wide range of app ideas for th