Welcome back everybody!After long flights from all over the world (well... Paris, Miami and Montreal), we finally arrived in Blacksburg, Virginia on Sunday and met our host families.
Romain and Mathieu are hosted by Vinny and Jane Argentina, Perrine by Richard Hammer and Catherine Fae, Hugo by Sharon Day, and Martin and Charles-Eric by Iain and Anne Clelland.
Today, after recovering from the jet lag, we went to Virginia Tech to have a welcome buffet lunch with the organizers of the challenge (Joe Meredith, Jim Flowers, Lindsey Eversole) and our host company, Modea, which is a growing digital services agency.
Then, we spent the afternoon practicing our speech for the challenge and attending to VTKW member companies presentations. During these lectures, we learnt many things about entrepreneurship and how to start a business here in the USA.
For the dinner, we were invited with our host families by the VT Office of Outreach and International Affairs represented by John Dooley at The Inn, a hotel and conference center. It was a very formal dinner : for instance, we were impressed by students of VT who marched carrying the flags of every teams country. We had a great evening and enjoyed our meal together. We also saw the trophy ;-).
See you soon,
The Artbeating team.
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