more Friday - and then what...

Saturday is a travel day. One group of students is leaving the hotel for the airport at 8 am. Another group is leaving the hotel at noon. The final student will be leaving on Monday.
The blog will continue beginning that same day, as the students still have course work remaining. Their final assignment is to design a book that captures "their London experience." Please check in next week for more updates.

Friday - Final London delivery

We left at 9:10 am for our meeting at Buro Happold. The students gathered around the conference table, Professor Leland then introduced the project to our customer. Each group presented, and the customer gave feedback on each proposed solution.
Overall they were very impressed with all the groups work. They gave Chapman University high praise and they lauded the students creative efforts.
The students then went off to see what last bits of London they could see. The professors retired to a pub to grade this project and then did some sight seeing on their own. Finishing at THE ORANGE gastropub and having British fare one last time before returning to Orange County tomorrow.

Mock presentations

Thursday - pre game warm up

On Thursday, as always, the students are making the last edits to their projects and presentations. One group chose to work in the hotel's lounge, while the rest worked in the conference room. After lunch the work continued, refining, getting professor feedback, the day culminated with each group mock presenting to the entire class for feedback.

More Hampton

Hampton Palace was just too beautiful to not show a few more of the pictures.

So at nearly 11 pm after dinner, then dessert, certain members of our party decided that a pizza to "take away" as we headed home would be great. Here you see the group waiting for their pie to be done. It was a great afternoon of sight seeing, eating, laughing, drawing on the train, eating dessert, and late night noshing.

Train and Hampton

Wednesday work

The students worked from 9 to 1:30 creating the art work to support and solve communication problem posed by their customer while obeying all the Olympic branding rules. Included in that was a brief break for lunch and then we left for Hampton Court Palace. It was a half hour train ride away from London. We ate dinner together and then we "goodged" for dessert getting off at the tube stop that coined the term - Goodge.

Tuesday - working...

On Tuesday we begin at 9 with an individual review of each students 4th project - the book they have to create of their entire London experience. Then the students work in groups to refine their concepts and begin fleshing them out for the rest of the day. There is pressure building for the assignment and pressure building as our time in London winds to a close.

Mmmm pie and pizza

Ron and I also went to our favorite pizza place

Monday at Buro Happold

On Monday we traveled to our 3rd and final office and were given a 2 hour presentation from one of the principals, and two other engineers who have been working for 6+ years on the Olympic park site. It was chock full of information.Ron, Eric, Gabby, Susanna, and Keri found a great Pub known for it's English Pies. So so good. In the afternoon the students returned and began coming up with the concepts. The day ended at 5ish and all went off in groups to do different things.

Sat/Sun continued

Saturday and Sunday

My apologies for the lateness of the post.
For the weekend we went in 4 directions- Barcelona, Paris, Wales, and London.
Everyone had a good time and arrived back safely. One or two students have been sick, but all are on the mend now.