Today was our last day fully in country, as tomorrow we will be flying back home. We started the day by visiting a floating farm, which is literally a cow farm that floats on the river. We started with a presentation about the farm and how the owners started it after seeing the devastation in New York after hurricane Sandy. Since food was hard to find after this hurricane, they wanted a way to have food be ready quickly in a large city. Their solution was a farm that floats on the water in a city so that it cannot be destroyed by flooding as well as being closer to a population center. This ties into this program’s theme of from concept to customer as being so close reduces necessary travel from the farm to the customer, both saving money and reducing emissions from travel. Another way this farm is trying to be more sustainable is by feeding the cows food returns from the city, using food that otherwise would have gone to waste. However, this doesn’t come without its downsides. While it may be more flood resistant, building a floating farm like this is rather expensive, meaning it is likely not feasible to bring this idea to places that could not afford it. However, for those that can, this may be a good option to get food production closer to cities, especially in ties of crisis that make that difficult. We then had a walking tour of the farm, followed by a tasting of some of the products they sell. Then we had lunch, followed by our last visit: RDM Rotterdam, a Vocational Institute located by an old shipyard. Being a vocational institution, it focuses a bit more on hands on learning. As such, we got to see a couple of labs that students got to learn and work in. For example, the mechanical engineers had a lab where they could work on vehicles, which was pretty interesting. The second half of our tour was an area where companies could work on experimental ideas that may not be able to get funding elsewhere. We saw some more interesting things here, like a drone that could be used for inspections and a series of floating domes designed by the same architect who designed the floating farm. We also got to learn about some of the benefits of this place, one of which being what our guide called “cross pollination,” where two corporations who aren’t competing can share ideas to benefit both. I think that this idea is interesting, as people from different industries can use similar concepts to tackle different concepts. This is similar to how people from different countries can also use ideas  use the same ideas that one or the other wouldn’t have thought of, which is one of the benefits of this program. After this visit we went back to our hostel and prepared for our farewell dinner. Overall, I feel like today showed a lot of ideas that we learned from this trip, from sustainability to concept to customer to sharing ideas in ways we wouldn’t think of. This trip has helped me learn a lot about these ideas, as well as Dutch culture as a whole. I feel like I won’t fully see the full benefits of this trip until I get an opportunity to put it into use, but even now I can see how this has opened my worldview a large amount. That being said, I’m happy to be going home. If I had to stay much longer, I feel like all of the information might melt my brain a bit.