week 3

My third week at the Science Center has been nothing but exciting! I am very comfortable around the museum, I am able to help guests around, answer questions, and talk about the exhibits, live demos, and  the featured movies that we have to offer. I also have been training new volunteers on how to be involved and make the best out of every guest's visit by training them on activities and showing them around.
    We have been working on a new project, the "Robot Maze". The volunteers who are within the engineering field are helping our engineering volunteer supervisor program/code a Lego robot (built by me and 3 other volunteers) to be able to make his away across a maze we are building in the main lobby. We have some implications because the robot only allows for very simple 5 step coding, but we are trying to make the best of it and plan on having it up and running by next week.
    One of the best things I watched last week was a starfish dissection; me and a very intelligent University of Arizona sophomore have plans to demonstrated a sheep's eye dissection next week! Also I got to participate in an EKG machine reading activity, and it made me really happy because I am a certified EKG technician so it was nice to do something that I was very familiar with.
    My supervisor wants to send me on another outreach activity this week to assist in delivering supplies and reading stories to underprivileged kids at low funded schools and neighborhoods. I really hope I get to do that!
All in all I'm having a great time, it feels more like a vacation than work! The people I work amongst are so intelligent and talented. From exceptional high schoolers to retired engineers and weathermen, I've enjoyed talking to them all! My supervisor loves me and gave me the day off to visit the Grand Canyon today (I'm typing this on my way there but do not have any service to submit it, don't worry someone else is driving!).