Day 17

Today began with everyone frantically trying to finish putting their presentations together. We all had to make powerpoints in our research groups to get ready for the presentations that night. I spent most of the morning working with my group to finish our presentation. Luckily it didn’t take us too long. We had enough extra time to go to the store in the afternoon to exchange all the bottles we had collected. You can get 2 kroner for every plastic bottle you return, which is about 40 cents. Between my room and the boys across the hall, we collected over 100 kroner. We all used the money to buy milkshakes at the store. It was definitely a nice break before a busy evening. When we got back, we all were assigned jobs to get ready for the presentations that evening. A bunch of scientists were supposed to come over from KISS since a flight from New York had just arrived that afternoon. There were also some special Danish and Greenlandic guests coming. We also spent some time working on what we were going to say. We made sure to write out some notes for everyone in the group. I’m still so impressed they are able to give scientific presentations in their second and third languages. After some frantic cleaning, a quick run for dinner, and a pre-presentation dance party, we were finally ready. My group had to go first as always and it went really well. All the other groups did really well too. We ended up having a lot of guests and everyone seemed to really enjoy it. We even had our special guests of the Danish Minister of Science and the head of the Greenlandic education department. It ended up being a really great end to the field school.

Team Atmosphere at the ice

Milkshakes!

Getting ready for presentations