Lucas Sylvester

Category: Travel

Travel experiences and pictures.

First Skiing trip to Val d’Isère

Had a great winterbreak learning skiing in the French Alps. Birthday was spent on the slopes and afterski partying on La folie douce with a concert from danish artist ICEKIID and later Cocorico.

Day trip to Ottawa

Great one day trip to Canada. I got a tour of the Canadian parlament, went to the Canadian Museum of Nature and tour of the inner city.

Weekend trip to Quebec City

Weekend started out with a winter hike trough Vallée Bras-du-Nord out to see Delaney Falls. Into the city at night to see the several german christmas markets along a giant puppet parade featuring Krampus and st. Nicolaus. Day 2 major city tour with the large landmarks and shopping.

Road and cabin trip to Eastern Townships of Quebec

Road trip throught the eastern provinces of Quebec. We visited Magog, Sheerbrook, Coaticook and ended up staying in a huge old school wooden cabin (Chalet Grande Ourse) in Notre-Dame-des-Bois. The weekend itinerary included:

MAIS Hacks 2023 – Winner of Hack for Impact

This past weekend I had the amazing opportunity to participate in my first hackathon: MAIS Hacks organized by the McGill Artificial Intelligence Society My teammates Roman Sejnoha, Murad Ismayilov, Jasneet Sawhney and I had a great time developing our TimeTrek browser extension over the course of 24 hours. Using natural language processing and machine learning, we put together and tested a
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