3rd day at Virginia Tech

Another day, the same trip… This day started with high emotions. When preparing the bags, we ranged our suits hoping to be prepared for the big day.

“Did I learn my speech by heart?” That’s what every one asked himself when we took the WIFI-equipped bus to Roanoke. After leaving our luggages in the hotel, we went to the Taubman Museum of Art just next to the hotel. A volunteer showed us the museum. Very interesting tour I have to say! Some artworks had nice stories. That was what captivated us the most.

The tour was followed by a quick launch in the sunny yard of Norah’s Café outside the Museum. We joined the hotel after that to sit in for Jim Flowers’ presentation. The main topic was, of course, entrepreneurship. We got many tips about how to succeed in a start-up. The conference was illustrated by a lot of examples showing the keys of the success.

We checked in the hotel by 4:00 pm. Well, this day especially, most of the teams had chosen to get to know more about the others. You could see many groups of different teams wandering together in the hotel or having diner together. Speaking of diner, it was an incredible prestigious reception, quite formal. The mayor of Roanoke and some other personalities attended it. A group of music and a group of dancing were playing during the buffet while we were talking to some people about our project. It was a pretty nice moment before joining our rooms in order to rehearse, the eve of the event.

In fact, we were waiting for the demo to be sent to us, so we can illustrate our presentation with a concrete application. Once we received it, we put all the slides together. We spent a long time rehearsing and trying to refine, as much as we could, our 10 minutes presentation. We couldn’t sleep without making sure that no detail was neglected.

To wrap up this long day, we went to bed for few hours before the big day…

The WePulse Team