Now that the exhibit, Tech Savvy, has been opened, the office is looked for another big project to take up. Of course, the Summer Learning Institute (which is what the museum’s summer camp is called) is still underway, as well as any scheduled tours. This means that I’ve been busying myself helping out with the summer camp (watching over classes while they’re eating lunch or other tasks like that) in the afternoon while my mornings are taken up with tours of our Root and Sloth galleries with outside summer camps. A lot of aspects of the internship have become fairly routine and comfortable by this point. For example, I’ve become so familiar with the material I speak on when I give tours that I doubt I’ll forget it once I leave, so I’ll gain a plethora of new fun facts.

Beyond this, however, there’s a storage room that has some fossil material in it that’s part of the education department. It was mentioned to me upon first starting here that it might be part of my responsibilities to sort through it and organize it and, once seeing it, it is certainly a daunting task. I helped the department come up with a system that would help organize the materials in there. I found some affordable clear storage bins that could fit on shelves and have doors that open outwards (like a microwave) so it would be more easily accessible. They liked my idea and it sounded like they might go ahead and buy them, so in my future, sorting the storage room may be ahead of me.