This past week was very busy for all of us at the museum. Thursday we wrapped up our Anti-bullying forum in which the new CEO of Chicago Public Schools spoke, Jean Claude Brizzard, and it was a major success. Friday we had FIVE field trips back to back. Over 250 kids arrived within a 30 minute time period and we interns did an excellent job if I do say so myself. The field trips are now our baby of sorts. We run them from beginning to end and it is quite a feeling of accomplishment when they run smoothly. We each have our somewhat designated roles in handling each field trip. Brinkley enjoys the more technological side of the field trips and working with kids so she mans the check in computers and occasionally tags along on the youth tours when a volunteer is missing. Alexis is our head hancho! She directs us as well as the students and teachers upon entering the building. She makes sure that everyone enters security efficiently as well as marking our completed tasks off the field trip check list. Myself, well I have what I think to be the most exciting part of the field trip process. I typically greet each bus full of students and quickly discuss details with teachers. I really enjoy the face to face interaction. I also gather the docents when their buses are ready to be debriefed and send them out to meet with their students and teachers. Our system works really great and we all work really well together.
This week we have 168 students coming just from one school. Our system is so synchronized and runs so smoothly when the field trips arrive. We had one small mishap with a school on friday but it was a little misunderstanding and we worked together to take care of the issue. We received a really great email complimenting us on a successful day...which is always nice :)!
Later today I am hoping to post again with new pictures from the renovated Miller Youth Exhibit. It is exceptional! Amanda Friedeman is a creative genius and did a fantastic job bringing her vision to life!
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