This is the last day of our trip to Beijing. It’s a weird feeling after getting close with everyone these past two weeks. In the morning we had our last lecture, again on Chinese politics and family life. The lecture lasted a little over two hours, and then we presented our culminating projects which were necessary as part of the three credits we earned for this trip.
There were four groups each with unique ideas for their project. Our project was to create a product that had a market in China. Let me tell you, there are very few products that don’t have a market in China, so the groups focused more on products that were solutions to problems we encountered while in China. One group offered an updated version of GoogleMaps or MapQuest that included user input such as mode of transportation, kind of vehicle (if driving), and would log time to create a database to get places faster. Our group created a sort of bigger air filter to help clean the smoggy air of Beijing, we didn’t really think it out that much but it still went ok. The third group created a system that would help report corruption to the central government and to help free people who were living under the corrupt local government. The last one had to do with the water in Beijing. The tap water is too dirty to drink so they created a product that would purify the water and create tea through multiple filters.
All were good ideas and had good presentations, and like that the scheduled part of the trip was over, except the farewell dinner. During the day I took a nap for once during the trip. At night we went out for the last time and did a sort of bar crawl, drinking the drink named after the bar at each one. It was a great night.
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