Last weekend we went to Explore UT, which is an all-day event held on campus. University student volunteers from all the disciplines have exhibits and activities set up for the visiting school-age kids. There’s quite a range of things to do and learn about, but Bay and Koa always are most interested in the Engineering and Science activities. This year, the highlights for them were the Robotic Soccer game, which was played by Aibo and Nau robots. That was pretty cool to see. Another thing they really enoyed was the VR environments. Koa got to walk around the room and interact with virtual drumkits, piano keys and a life-size statue that you could punch. Bay did a VR race around a city environment. He said the graphics were “pretty weak”, though. At the Science area, we got to see exploding gummi bears and the diet coke geyser using mentos. We’d never actually seen that in person although we’ve heard about it before.
I always like Explore UT and we have gone the past three years now. It’s kind of fun to visit campus and experience a little bit of University life again!
