Thursday, July 21, 2011

GC Randolph Explores Montshire Museum!

Global Campus Randolph traveled to Montshire Museum this week to explore their current exhibits and get some inspiration for Fall Term classes!. The museum had generously mailed us free passes to get in for the day so while we were eating lunch we all signed a thank you note for the executive director. There was a lot to explore in the museum. We started out as one big group checking out the robotic exhibit and then slowly drifted into smaller pods. The robot exhibit was really neat, there was a platypus, chameleon, house fly and other animals that were robotic and you could push buttons to make different parts move or light up, reading about different facts relating to the animal. I didn’t know that the male platypus has poison injectors in his hind legs for fighting with other males! We had fun with a chameleon camouflage exhibit, trying on different ponchos to blend into a background.

Rick, Dan and I ventured outside to the water park, but the warm bath water wasn’t much of a respite from the heat. As the afternoon came to a close we spent some time in the downstairs portion of the museum having a grand time with all the different permanent exhibits. Giant bubble contraptions, air tubes with foam balls, fish and reptiles in tanks, vortex and current machines, and more. It was a full afternoon!