Call for marine videos!
Now that the exhibit has been running smoothly on its own for several months, we want to showcase more new exciting footage from the ocean!
Surprising Minds Project Blog
This blog serves as a shared, online, open lab notebook for the Surprising Minds exhibit. Posts are organized by year below.2018
2017
Automating and upgrading the exhibit
Today the exhibit got a major update, based on things we learned from over the summer.
Daily Report: August 30, 2017
I tried not to actively busk for participants; I wanted to see how many people would approach on their own accord.
Daily Report: August 26, 2017
Another very quiet day – I guess the enormous summer crowds are done now, given that schools will start again next week.
Daily Report: August 25, 2017
Even though it was a Friday, it was quite quiet. The day started with 2 sets of parents, their very young children in tow (too small to do the exhibit, so th...
Daily Report: August 24, 2017
It was a very slow and quiet day. Everyone seemed tired or sick or lethargic – it was quite difficult to engage people in conversations, and for the first ti...
Daily Report: August 19, 2017
The exhibit got a steady stream of visitors today; many were the usual foreign language study students, but I also got a significant number of non-white euro...
Daily Report: August 18, 2017
It was pretty slow all day, but this meant I got more time with each participant.
Daily Report: August 17, 2017
A diversity of eyes
Daily Report: August 13, 2017
Last day of the Nuffield Research Placement!
Daily Report: August 12, 2017
was thinking about how to automate the exhibit all day.
Daily Report: August 11, 2017
I referred lots of people to the website and I think it would be very beneficial to possibly put weekly updates and have a subscriber list almost.
Daily Report: August 10, 2017
many many families!
Daily Report: August 09, 2017
busy but short because I slept thru my morning alarms…thanks jetlag :)
Daily Report: August 07, 2017
The day wasn’t very busy but there was a usual interest and crowding around the exhibit at peak times.
Daily Report: August 04, 2017
Quite a busy day, lots of people were interested in the exhibit.
Daily Report: August 03, 2017
The day consisted of a constant stream of participants, two foreign schools attended the centre as well as large groups of families.
Daily Report: July 31, 2017
The day was quite slow today but a lot of parents took part and enjoyed the exhibit.
Daily Report: July 29, 2017
Today remained quite busy but because everyone was in such a rush, not everyone stopped to take a look at the exhibit.
Daily Report: July 28, 2017
There were more older children today but they seemed to be lacking in courage as most participants were younger in age.
Daily Report: July 27, 2017
The day had quite a slow start but by the afternoon it was very busy.
Daily Report: July 25, 2017
The day was quite busy, there were a few foreign schools and a lot of families with kids.
Daily Report: July 20, 2017
The day was quite slow in general but there were a few foreign schools and many people were interested in the science.
Daily Report: July 17, 2017
Not very many people came to the aquarium over the course of the day and those who did were either adults or primary school children or people who did not sp...
Daily Report: July 16, 2017
There were less schools in today, but a lot more families consisting of young children.
Daily Report: July 15, 2017
I was asked a lot about the science behind it; a lot of parents seemed really interested in understanding why and how the process is done.
Daily Report: July 14, 2017
One of the ladies I spoke to lectured in neuroscience and was incredibly interested by the project.
Daily Report: July 13, 2017
The day started at 9am however the exhibit only opened at 2:20pm as we had to deal with aesthetic and technical difficulties concerning replacing the old mas...
Daily Report: July 12, 2017
The morning was less successful than the afternoon, mostly due to the large numbers of primary school children that wanted to take part.
Daily Report: July 11, 2017
Below is the daily report template for the exhibit. Please fill it out at the end of each day and email it to both me and Goncalo.
Nuffield Summer Students
We teamed up with A-levels students interested in neuroscience research ‘in the wild’ to run the exhibit for 3 weeks and prototype the interactive booth as a...
Installing the guts of the interactive station
Time-lapse video and photos!
Exhibit update: crunch time!
It’s the weekend before we install the exhibit!
Where it all began…
Notes from the meeting that launched the Surprising Minds exhibit