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A couple of other interesting examples:

1) NY Hall of Science is doing a project with NSF funding for students designing and facilitating exhibits in a virtual world.  It's going well, but it isn't public yet.
2) Nina Simon did a project at the Tech for designing exhibits in second life.  Not sure if there is an archive of that.
3) I taught a class at NYU's ITP program where the students designed exhibits that we prototyped on the Hall's exhibit floor and at the world science festival in Washington Square Park.  They are grad students and their work was incredible.  Here are some pics  http://bit.ly/f3iqjw

Eric Siegel

On Feb 2, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Ian Russell wrote:

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> I can confirm the snags that Stuart Kohlhagen has just highlighted. Last
> year I also ran interactive exhibit design sessions for adults at the
> National Science Centre in Kuala Lumpur and also at the British Interactive
> Group's annual 'Event'. Many years ago I was also involved in running a
> public competition very similar to the one you propose. 
> 
> You are certainly going to receive a high percentage of inappropriate
> submissions on which children have sadly wasted much time and effort. Many
> ideas will not resemble any kind of interactive exhibit. Many other
> 'designs' will be quite impossible or impractical to actually fabricate. 
> 
> May I make a suggestion, based on experience? Why not invite the children to
> physically MAKE their own simple, tabletop, interactive exhibits, maybe
> based on specific exhibits that you describe or show them? Again I know from
> experience that this is perfectly possible for children to do, using very
> simple, inexpensive materials. Then they could simply submit photos and/or
> movies of their creations as competition entries. This will keep everything
> much more focused, give the participants an extremely worthwhile learning
> experience and minimise wasted effort.
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