Today link officially starts. However, my internship does not start until tomorrow. So, in preparation for my required interview assignment I have been spending the day preparing question and deciding upon the format in which I will upload my interview.
Log #2, 3/13/2012
Today I started my first day at the discover museum. I was trained and worked the floor. I will not be trained to use the Thing-o-matic until thursday, which gives me time to learn the program needed to create things for it. Working with the children is a large amount of fun.
Log #3, 3/14/2012
Today was national Pi day. I was tasked with coming up with an activity that people who are 10 and older could do to earn a slice of pie. I decided to challenge kids to find the area of the planets in the solar system if they were flat circles, using pi. I have also become more acquainted with the pinball machine's inner mechanisms and started helping customers in the Spark shop with the lego NXT robotics set.
Formal training in the spark-shop today. I spent the majority of the day in there working with the 3D printer and helping kids out with the NXT set. I am also taking the first few steps in my project,
Log #5, 3/16/2012
Today I was working the thing-o-matic. I was able to sell items to multiple people, which made the museum money.
Log #6, 3/20/2012
Today I started working with sketchup. The program is relatively easy to use and I think this will be easier than I thought it would be.
Log #7, 3/21/2012
Continued working with sketchup. It it a very straightforward program. I feel that if I can mess with it a bit more that I could make the outline on how to use it relatively fast.
Log #8, 3/22/2012
Today was more of yesterday.
Log #9, 3/23/2012
Today was much like the previous two days, but, we added new exhibits to the museum which made things a bit hectic.
Log #10, 3/27/2012
I started working on my project. Unfortunately I was unable to get familiar enough with sketchup to create a guide for it. Instead I will have to pursue just the quick-start guide to using the thing-o-matic so that museum personnel can operate it with minimal training.
