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Made in China Twelve students in the economics Jan Plan course Made in China spent the month visiting factories and farms in China and Hong Kong. Highlights of the course included visits to Capital Iron and Steel, the Daqing oil fields, Walsin Power Cable, the high-tech company MiTAC, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and Arabica Coffee Roasters. Students chronicled the experience with photographs and narratives. Check out their blog at insidecolby.com/otherstuff.
Extreme Dictionary Launched in October by two Colby sophomores, Shredbook.com is more than a social networking site. It’s “a community for action-sports junkies to spread lingo and tricks using words, videos, and pictures,” according to the founders.
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Shredbook invites users share their lingo about extreme sports. To illustrate the meaning of the words, users can provide a definition, a photo, or a video. The first time a user added a word to the site, according to Huntington, they felt encouraged and that it’s worth creating the site. “Through making Shredbook, we learned that if we work on an idea, we can make it happen,” he said.
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Both Foster Huntington ’10 and Daniel Opalacz ’10 said that they started “shredding sports,” like skiing and snowboarding, when they were 4 or 5 years old. Last summer, their idea to start a web-based business turned into Shredbook.com when they enlisted technical support of a student at the University of Maine.
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Without advertising the site, Shredbook.com attracted 400 users from the U.S., Canada, South Africa, France, Australia and Spain, in the month and a half after its launch. —Po Yin Wong ’09