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

Call for marine videos!

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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!

2017

Daily Report: August 30, 2017

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 11, 2017

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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 07, 2017

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The day wasn’t very busy but there was a usual interest and crowding around the exhibit at peak times.

Daily Report: August 03, 2017

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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 29, 2017

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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

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There were more older children today but they seemed to be lacking in courage as most participants were younger in age.

Daily Report: July 25, 2017

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The day was quite busy, there were a few foreign schools and a lot of families with kids.

Daily Report: July 20, 2017

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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

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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

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There were less schools in today, but a lot more families consisting of young children.

Daily Report: July 15, 2017

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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

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One of the ladies I spoke to lectured in neuroscience and was incredibly interested by the project.

Daily Report: July 13, 2017

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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

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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

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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

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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...