Ishanee's+Activity+Log

=**Ishanee's Activity Log for Innovation Project**=

//Friday Feb. 20, 20 minutes:// -talked to a family of four from Buffalo, (parents+2 kids) who drive down to Toronto and visit the Centre almost every year! -talked to the mom about their experience as a family - they enjoy learning interesting things in new and different ways (ie, not conventional reading, but actual experiencing the knowledge), enjoyed exploring things together -children were most enthusiastic about "Sports" and "Space" - very excited about exhibits that they actually got to **interact** in -__Conclusion/New Ideas__ : should definitely be something interactive, and it would be good if we could make it something for the family/group to do together (I also noticed that some members of the group get impatient while others are having their turn first, or the ones that have had their turn already get bored while waiting for the others)

//Monday, Feb. 23, 15 minutes:// -talked to a mother with her two very young children (at the rocket chair thing in space) -the children, around 2 and 4, seemed to be loving the exhibit where you can launch a rocket ship (marbles) to fly into saturn's orbit -mom said they liked things that were very graphic and interactive -also said it would be nice if there were more exhibits where young children could witness science simply and still understand the concepts (very simplified)

//Tuesday, Feb. 24, 30 minutes:// -after speaking to friends, it seems that people tend to enjoy things more when they can personally relate to them. -eg, aging machine shows people what **they** will look like when they are older, reaction time thinger tells people **their** reaction time, etc.

//Tuesday Feb. 24, 1 hour:// -met with The Pump Monkeys to discuss ideas, come up with topic, tour Science Centre, go to see the shops, meet Design Team (Bruce)

//Friday Feb. 27, 35 minutes//: -talking to my friends while hanging out, asked their opinions about our idea and discussed it with them -they seemed to think it was a good idea, especially if we could relate individual results to well-known athletes -also thought it was a good idea to have two stations, so that friends could go together and compare results (turn it into a competition -_-) -__New Idea__: it woud be cool if the visitor succeeded in pumping a certain amount of blood, we could have something set off (like, if visitor pumped enough blood to throw a ball, a ball could maybe get thrown (in display case)) - i dont know if this would be too much, or how efficient it would be, but i think it would be cool if their pumping would result in some sort of action.

//Wednesday, March 4, 30 mins//: -met with group -discussed ideas

//Thursday, March 5, 50 minutes:// -meeting with bruce and walter -discussed mechanics and design of prototype -discussed budget details with respect to the prototype -they can possibly get us pump and containers ( barrier pump is a good idea, glue pump ) -__Note__: we MAY have to squeeze for the budget, because apparently, certain materials are quite expensive

//Monday, March 9, 45 minutes:// -researched materials which were discussed as potential materials for our protoype in terms of our budget, ie found prices, where we could get them from, etc. (with Danielle)

//Monday, March 9, 10 minutes:// -email correspondence with Bruce to discuss budget

//Tuesday, March 11, 15 minutes//: -more email correspondence with Bruce, regarding which materials he had available, and where we could find others

//Wednesday, March 12, 1 hour:// -meeting, discussing ideas, etc -finding water cooler and tubing that Mary suggested

//Wednesday, March 12, 10 minutes:// -spoke with Matt about pumping apparatus

//Wednesday, March 12, 1.5 hours:// -looked up costs of materials that we decided upon, weighed pros and cons, discussed with others -put together Budget Proposal -emailed budget proposal to OSCSS staff.

//Tuesday, March 24, 20 minutes:// -went to see Bruce -got barrell pump, explored the shop to try and find different size tubing -discussed effects of smaller vs larger sized tubes

//Wednesday, March 25, 1.5 hours:// -Pump Monkeys meeting -discussed experimental prototype design -worked on actual model design

//Monday, March 30, 20 minutes:// -called and emailed Cathie Spencer of International Sales to ask for budget proposal

//Wednesday, April 22, 5 - 10 minutes//: -emailed Pump Monkeys about building on Friday

//Friday, April 24, approx. 2 hours//: -building prototype with the building team

Wednesday, April 29, approx. 1.5 hours: -testing pump with Pump Monkeys -talk about presentation

//Wednesday, April 29, 2.5 hours:// -phoned Bruce to discuss prices of materials for actual exhibit -phoned Fabco Plastics to ask about polyethelene containters (for reservoir) -researched materials online -put together final draft of Final Budget

//Friday, May 1, 1 hour:// -painting prototype