Home / About / News / Inside DiscoTech: Admitted Students Explore Caltech A rainy Sunday morning gave way to clear skies just in time to welcome more than 290 admitted students and their guests to campus for Caltech's annual Discover Caltech program, known as DiscoTech. Over four days, from April 12 to April 15, attendees explored the Institute's academic offerings, campus traditions, and community—while weighing one of the biggest decisions ahead of them: where to spend the next four years of their lives. In his welcome keynote to DiscoTech attendees, Kevin Noertker (BS '09), the co-founder and CEO of hybrid-electric aircraft company Ampaire , encouraged students to rethink how they approach that decision. "Definitely don't try to draw a map of where your future is headed," Noertker said. "I used to think I was a mapmaker, ...but the reality is life is not something you can generally map out. Treat it like a compass.…