Location: Eleven City Diner
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2015; 6:00-7:00 pm
Apparently all the email exchanges for this committee happen
on something called ‘Mini Group’ and
I was not on it. Michael added me and
then I was able to track that our meeting was at the same place as the one
before. I was running late and arrived
at 6 pm. Bob and Carrie were already
there and discussing the agenda that Cori had sent out earlier; though she
wasn’t there today. Bob asked if I had
noticed anything in terms of guest experience for the “Scavenger Hunt” last week.
I said that my interactions with them were limited to giving out the
secret phrase, after making them say the phrase out in the manner that it
should be said. We agreed that the guests love
this activity and that since it takes them to the different areas of the
museum, it was a brilliant promotion. We
said that we should encourage photo opportunities in different parts of Adler
and provide a Social Media guide on where to post the pictures. Also, some of the guests had been unaware of
that this activity was going on and so we said that we should ensure that
Registration communicates this when they check-in.
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| These guys at "Adler After Dark"? |
Next up was themes for next year’s “After Dark” and Cori had submitted an idea to have something
called “Solar System Waltz”, which
would be a “formal night” with a
theme of "movement" – people, music, and of course the movement of planets within
the solar system. I loved
it…brilliant. She had suggested having ‘Chicago Symphony Orchestra’ folks
playing classical music and Bob said that while it may not happen, we could
potentially have students of classical music in the house to play. I really think this is a great idea. We started discussing some ideas for themes
and I said maybe something to do with ‘Leap
Year’ in February. Bob sugested something to do with “leaping” and
gravity. Another theme that I suggested
was a theme on “Projectiles”, where
we could incorporate activities around asteroids, meteors, comets etc. Another popular theme according to me was ‘Exoplanets’. I mentioned how fantastic that
experiment from last week was, where the light meter was sensing the presence
of planet in front of the star. Bob said
it was great as well. Bob and Carrie said that we definitely wanted
to do a “scary” theme for
Halloween. I had mentioned that perhaps
we can do a “Scavenger Hunt” to find habitable
planets, with various criteria such as liquid water, “Goldilocks zone” etc. On
hearing “Goldilocks zone”, Carrie
asked if we have enough to do an entire “Fairy
Tale” theme. At this Bob said there
were several fairy tales from Grimm that were scary.
Michael arrived and we told him some of the ideas. I said that as “Advisory Council”, we would love to have some input on not just
the themes, but the actual activities that go into it. He said that our point
was well taken. I once again mentioned
how the Astronomers suck the life out of guests in “SVL” and there wasn’t much argument from anyone against that! As per Cori, next thing on the agenda was
cutting the number of ‘Doane Observatory’
visits, so as to allow the last group enough time. But it wasn’t something we are completely
aware of in terms of operations, so we skipped that. Next topic was “Volunteer Get together”. I
asked if there was a budget for that and Michael said that he would have to
check. Some of the ideas were having a
lake cruise at sunset...maybe even to watch the fireworks. Carrie brought up an important point that if
volunteers are paying for it out-of-pocket, they may not be that motivated to
attend. That was pretty much it and we
concluded at 7 pm. Next day Michael
sent the themes for the remaining events for 2015. One was “Back
2 The Future”, because this is the year shown as the future in the movie. I asked if we were building a car out of “Flux capacitor” and he said that they
are actually working on a “Hoverboard”.
Wonder if the ‘Cubs’ would win the “World Series” though.
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