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Read more: Wrapping it All Up: Departure Day
Prague quietly reframed how I think about engineering. The best innovations I saw here weren’t chasing perfection, but they were solving problems in the context…
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Read more: Just About Done: Day 12
Karlštejn was built on purpose. Every design choice traces back to a reason, like the hilltop location and the thick stone, helping prevent and protect…
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Read more: All Around and More: Day 11
The Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry was a highlight for me personally. The biosynthetic pathways lab, specifically the work on using plants to replicate…
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Read more: Building it Up: Day 10
LEGO was by far the most memorable trip, especially with how much I loved using them growing up and even now. The precision required to…
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Read more: Digging Deeper: Day 9
CEZ’s approach to maintaining their energy needs as well as environmental needs showcases the balance needed by engineers. While they have to make sure that…
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Read more: Keeping it Balanced: Day 8
Škoda surprised me. The thing that stuck specifically was the balance of everything in the factory. Too much automation and you lose flexibility, while too…
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Read more: Mixing it into the Cement: Day 7
At the KunstHalle, what stood out wasn’t the art itself but the infrastructure around it. Some components, like removing oxygen from rooms during a fire…
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Read more: Bones and All: Day 6
Today was less about historical events and more about looking closely at how historical things were built, and why. At St. Barbara’s Cathedral, the flying…
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Read more: Community Within: Day 5
When walking through the town of Terezin, what hit hardest wasn’t just the scale of suffering but the endurance of it; people holding on not…
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Read more: Prague in a Hop, Skip, and a Bite: Day 4
One of my most surprising discoveries in Prague came from today’s dinner. In our cooking class, we prepared a traditional potato and mushroom soup, and…
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