Don't know if anyone else has heard of this, but a science museum in Chicago, no, THE science museum is taking applications for a thing they're doing where some lucky person is going to get to spend thirty days and nights inside. I assume that person is going to have to do a little more than just experiments and going crazy over the cool stuff they have in there. I personally would be like a kid in a candy store with no adult supervision if I got chosen. I've always loved museums. I enjoyed the heck out of the Smithsonian and the Samurai exhibit in San Francisco and the King Tut exhibit and the science museums I went to as a girl and, well, all of them! My only regret is having so limited a time to spend in them. Usually, a day is just not enough to enjoy each part of the museum to its fullest. I can't even imagine how much fun it would be to spend a whole month in what would essentially be a giant playground.
I originally heard about it on kfbk radio station, so if you're interested in applying go to their web site and then features and there's a whole application to fill out and a couple projects to complete, mostly to show that you're actually interested and are willing to put in a little effort...as well as to screen out the people who really don't belong in museums anyway, I'm sure. The application and the essay were a breeze. It's the minute long dvd I have to make showing my creativity that I'm nervous about. Should I blow something up using common bathroom chemicals, or would that send the wrong signal? Should I show clips of myself doing some kind of science fair type project? How many other people are going to be sending that exact same video though? ~Sighs~ Yeah, that part is going to be infinitely harder so I'm open to suggestions! Anyone have any ideas?
I hope I can count on everyone rooting for me! I'll keep you up-dated, but I'm sure you'd be able to hear me celebrating even from Sacramento if I was chosen. So if government helicopters aren't circling a possible new noise based weapon that mysteriously appeared in Merced, assume I didn't make it. Either way though, I'm going to follow this contest with rapt attention.
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