Oregon Museum of Science and Industry - Keila Gonzalez Salazar, Week 2

 Keila G @ OMSI!

Hello everyone!!! I hope everyone had a wonderful week, and I hope you enjoy this blog!!! It was definitely an interesting and hectic week!!! So, let's start with Wednesday!

I started week 2 by spending most of the day with the other interns, learning about various learning strategies and how to conduct demonstrations. We got into groups and had different demos that we were going to present to each other. My friend and I had a demo regarding different pigments we see in the world and in nature. Specifically, the science behind the pigment of blue and how light and angles affect what color we see. As shown in the box below, we had multiple blue items. Such as feathers and wings of various animals. In our demo, we used the wings of a blue butterfly and shined a flashlight at various angles to show how it can be different colors. So, from one perspective, it was blue, but from another, it was brown!! It was very interesting to learn about many different types of demonstrations a museum can use to engage visitors, but also teach something new!!

  

On Thursday morning, I started working on sticker desgins for my project! My project during my internship involves planning an event to engage youth at OMSI's Teen Tech Center! So to promote TTC, we are doing a community outreach booth!!! Yay!! At our booth, we plan on having an interactive activity that teens and kids can enjoy! Also goodies!! I am currently in the works of planning out our sticker goodies anddd very limited edition tote bags!!!! Our theme for the booth is strawberries!!! I picked strawberries because they fit the theme of a farmers market(since we're going to a farmers market to promote), and it's something that everyone loves or knows about!!! In this photo, I was working in the TTC and sketching out some strawberry sticker designs and a how-to guide on making fruity keychains!!! Surprise!!! That's our interactive activity! Cute Keychains!!! This process taught me how much work goes into planning out goodies to pass out to people in the community, and also how to create an easy and accessible how-to guide.

On Friday, I started working more on the tote bag design!!! I picked something that related to our theme well, but simple enough to have on tote bags!! I also helped staff run around to find things to prepare for OMSI's booth at the PDX Pride Festival. This activity made me learn how chaotic it can get the day before an event and what to prepare for in the future for my booth at the Gresham Farmer's Market! I also worked more on the tote bag logistics on Saturday morning. It is not fun when you don't know how to use a Cricut. ):

Saturday afternoon: Today, I spent the majority of my time running the OMSI booth at the PDX Pride Festival. It was my first time at a huge festival like that, and I learned so many things! I learned how to be more confident when talking to visitors and how to interact with others when leading a project! We had a spin the wheel and gave out so many goodies!!! We also had an interactive activity, dancing robots!!! Overall, it went pretty good and I learned so many communication skills and vendor tips + tricks!!

Overall, this week was very hectic and busy. But it gave me so much knowledge on what it takes to put on any event and how by giving energy into everything you do, there will be great outcomes!! I hope you liked my blog!! If you did, make sure to give it a like and comment down below what you think about my theme and goodies!!! Until next time! 

- Keila <3

I feel so powerful every time I go in this elevator! mwah ha ha