On Tuesday we visited the Bird’s Nest, Water Cube, and had our second company visit, CapitalBio. This was a pretty chill day, and it went by pretty quickly. The Bird’s Nest is the National Stadium that was built by the Chinese Government to house the Olympics in 2008. It is called the Bird’s Nest because of the structure of the building. The outside was engineered in a way that it looked like a bird’s nest with seemingly randomly placed steel beams to simulate the branches of a nest. The stadium seats about 70,000 people and housed the track and field events. Even today it still hosts events about once or twice a week. In fact, two British Premier League teams will be playing an exhibition match there in the next few weeks.
Since we were already in the Water Cube on Sunday, we didn’t go in again, but we stopped by and were able to take pictures. This is the National Aquatics Stadium built for the 2008 Olympics. This is the location where Michael Phelps set the Olympic record for gold medals in a single Olympic Games with eight.
We took our second company visit today to CapitalBio. CapitalBio is a company that focuses on microarray machines and scanners that analyze DNA from blood or bone marrow samples that can help to identify genetic diseases and warn of any health issues. We have five bioengineers in our group, so they were very interested in the company, but I was rather bored.
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