I still owe you one day, so here it is. This blogpost came a bit late because as day 5 ended we still needed to get the island back into its regular state, get speakers back to the airport etc. Enough excuses… here’s day 5.

The last day of WeCamp 2015 was an exciting day. After 4 days of preparations and hard work, this was the day that Team Enygma would present Project Cypher. A project that we had kept an utter secret aside from the name. 

During the morning, I had another round of individual conversations with my team members to see how their short-term goals were working out. It was very good to see that all team members had either reached their goals or at least were very close to reaching their goals. Some also had a clearer view of what to do with their long-term goals thanks to the experience of WeCamp. One person had not actually reached his goal, but instead had gotten something completely different and unexpected out of WeCamp which he still counted as a **win**.

The preparations for the presentation of the product went well, although it was finished slightly too late (lunch had already started). Still, good enough.

Then it was time for the project presentations. Team Enygma was presenting as the last team, so we could see the other teams present their stuff first. It was awesome to see what people had come up with: Being able to use a Slack Bot to control an Arduino, community-minded projects for new speakers to get feedback on their project, even a daemon that you can use to play battleships. So very cool. The presentations also gave us an overview of what people had learned. An amazing amount of things were learned, that is clear.

And then… Project Cypher was presented. The idea behind the project was to be able to keep track of information about people you know. In the original project pitch by team member Remco it would be like a CRM for Friends (FRM?). The problem (and I can so relate to this problem): Forgetting about specific things (Where do I know this person from? What do they like? When is their birthday). As we worked on the project, we came to the conclusion that this was also the ultimate tool for stalkers, but it could also very easily be applied by the police for keeping track of criminals. So it was creepy, or not. Team member Paul (who wanted to learn to be a public speaker) killed it in the presentation, sharing what we had learned and also doing an awesome demo of our system in action: Everyone that was at WeCamp was in our database, nicely tagged and easily searchable. You might be able to imagine the feeling of pride I had when I saw all this. 4 people who had never before met had created this project in just 5 days, and learned so much in the process.

After that, it was time for the closing notes and saying goodbye to everyone. The crew and coaches stayed behind to have a final dinner together and chat for a bit more, processing everything that had happened along the way. Such a fantastic week. Thanks everyone who was there.