After visiting with the McNair students we wen't to the Northwestern University in the Chicago suburbs. There we listened in on the lecture their PhD student gave to pregraduate students hoping to motivate them to go for a PhD. After the talk we went on a tour of the peaceful campus and then took the yellow bus to the University of Illinois.

At the University of Illinois on the research colloquium I got an opportunity to speak about my volunteering experience I got through FOI projects. The  colloquium was led by Dr. Fabricio E. Balcazar, PhD who later led the discussion about the challenges the University is faceing and later showed us some projects the University starter with the goal to held people and students with disabilities with their professional and academic career.