Tuesday's Doin's

This past Tuesday brought a unique experience for our family: got to see two of the college kids in action!

Derek and Melinda had a presentation for their chem internship down at Ames.

We got permission for Trevor and Nolan to tag along and after wards had a tour of their lab.

Personalized lab coats!

Derek and Melinda were able to work with one of their chemistry professors from LeTourneau and spent their days doing experiments involving heating various metals and carbon nanotubes and....something about a microwave.

Of course, Loren would understand a lot more of this than I did.

Here, Derek shows and explains something about the nanotubes.

Then we went on a quick tour of buildings and lobbies...this one had a turbo jet engine.

Immediately Nolan was interested in what would happen if you put one of those babies in a car...

Virtual reality machine.

Derek and Melinda were looking forward to a demonstration of that before they left the campus.












Well, it was a bang up, top notch presentation, to my mind. Judging by how much I understood, ha ha.

But seriously, I was amazed and extremely proud to see my two up there describing their summer's work to a roomful of graduate and doctoral students. What an experience!

It's nice to know your kids can go a lot further than you ever did.

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