Winter Quarter

2006 Winter Quarter (Updated 01.2.06)

Quarter Timeline

  1. Session 1 - (January 06) - Adler planetarium at 1PM.
  2. Session 2 - (January 13) - Museum of Science and Industry
    Science Demonstrations 101
    Part 1. We're going to spend two sessions learning about and doing demonstrations from Shannon Forsythe and her team. In this first session we will be be broken into groups taught to do some existing MSI Demonstrations.
  3. Session 3 - (January 20) - Museum of Science and Industry
    Science Demonstrations 101
    Part 2. We're going to spend two sessions learning about and doing demonstrations from Shannon Forsythe and her team. In this first session we will be be broken into groups taught to do some existing MSI Demonstrations.

Big Project Goals/Requirements

  1. The project must be finished by the end of the spring 2006 quarter.
  2. The project should benefit and be appropriate for display or use by one or both of our partner museums: SciTech and MSI.
  3. The project must have some physical manifestation.
  4. The project must be adequately reviewed by the appropriate coaches, museum colleagues and PIs. This is to insure that it will both be at the appropriate level and also meet the needs of the museum.
  5. The projects must be targeted at a specific, identifiable museum audience. (For example, a typical SciTech exhibits could be for 6 to 10 year olds.)
  6. The project must go through stages of at least informal up-front and formative evaluations.
  7. The project must be conceived in a manner that it can be fabricated or created with the resources we have available.
  8. The project will need to be documented online. An outline format will be supplied in the winter quarter. What you will need to make sure and do is to take pictures at critical points in the process and to also keep records of your evaluations and early concepts. Also, all work must include proper references to the work of others.

The overall program goal is to make sure the projects we choose to do are both instructional for the student interns as well as useful to the museums. We will go through a review phase where we may modify the groups somewhat and also select only a subset of the proposed exhibits. This is to insure both realistic success as well take best advantage of the outside resources available for exhibit or project creation.

Allowable Projects Categories

  1. Hands-on Exhibit
  2. Demonstration
  3. Computer-Based Project or Media (GeoWall, interactive, etc.) useful to one of our museums