Honoring Scientists and Engineers with Art

[Jaine Perotti]

Some updates and some details:

If you are interested, PM me with the contact info for your mentor(s), as well as the school(s) your team is affiliated with. I, in turn, will put your team's contact info into our database, and you will recieve more information by email as to the details of the project in your area. I am not sure how soon we will be contacting you by email... some of this is a little "fly by the seat of our pants-ish" and we appreciate your patience.

Another thing I want to add is that I can't 100% guarantee that we will be able to get scientists/engineers/technicians to come and make a visit to your team and school. I have not contacted these people yet, and although I imagine that the majority of them will be enthusiastic and willing to help, not everyone may be available. I wanted to contact you (the teams) first because I wanted to make sure that I would be able to tell them who exactly they would be working with, who they would need to contact, and where they would be doing the project. I want to arrange the setup with the teams first so that it will be easy (and less confusing) for the MER people to come in and make the project a success.

Thanks to everyone who has shown interest,
-- Jaine

[Sila741]

One question. What of those teams(like mine) which don't come from any one school? We have representitives from over 6 high schools in the area,many with thier own teams. our official school is simply the only one that didn't already have a team associated with it.

[Jaine Perotti]

Originally Posted by Sila741

One question. What of those teams(like mine) which don't come from any one school? We have representitives from over 6 high schools in the area,many with thier own teams. our official school is simply the only one that didn't already have a team associated with it.

This is not a problem at all. If your team comes from several different high schools, you can "share" the MER contact - perhaps on the day of the project, you could gather kids from all of the schools in one spot, meet with the MER contact, and do your art project all together. I will organize these meetings on a case by case basis, so don't worry! Just give me the main contact info for your team, and things will be just fine.

Also, another question that has been asked of me frequently is what the timeline is for this project. We are hoping to get these projects rolling starting in the fall (after school gets back in session), but whenever each team and respective contact is ready - the meetings and artwork can begin! (again, the timing of this project is case by case) In terms of when the kids' art gets incorperated into the main sculpture, that will probably happen in middle to late winter.

Thanks for your support so far!

-- Jaine