After talking to Sarah in our last weeks workshop, as a team we realised our 3 ideas that we had come up with in our milestone 2 were not going to work as individually, none of us had the skills to prototype and complete the task. As a group we were feeling a little worried and off track as we needed to come up with an idea fast that would suit all of our skill sets.
To get back on track as a team we scheduled a group meeting that was held Thursday night where we had all decided to come with a list of each of our skills, what interested us about WSFB and around 5 rough/ simple ideas so we could get our creative brains thinking.
During our meeting we discussed this and came up with 5 mean ideas:
1. Escape the science room - 3 rooms all with different themes (e.g. one space room, one environment room, one animal room) you have to get through each room to get through to the end. You have to figure out a puzzle to get through to the next room.
2. Science themed board game (similar to Monopoly with moving around the board + question cards).
3. Contest: for uni students, the topic is to reuse plastic to create a science project. Then the contestants will submit their projects online through the page of the contest. The 3 winners will receive free tickets (more suggestions for prizes please) for next year’s WSF event
4. Community page: for science students to share their projects. The aim of this community page is to create a healthy and sustainable community of science students in Brisbane. The forum also updates on similar science events/expo with student discount codes.
Phase 1: Ad campaign Aims to educate and inspire more students to do science. We tend to assume that science is big, logical, or even mind-blowing. However, science is actually what we do in our daily life (eg. like why are we have droughts, animal life and habits). WSF Brisbane will run an ad campaign in a month to educate and inspire that science is for anyone of us. The campaign can also endorse student ambassadors and influencers.
Phase 2: After influencing the mindset and understanding of the audience on what science is, in this phase, WSF Brisbane will encourage uni students, high-school students to explore science in their daily life. By recording their exploration (video or images) and submit to WSF Brisbane’s Facebook. Moreover, students’ family and friends are encouraged to like and share the post of the contestants.
We thought of these ideas by also considering our main aims which include:
Aim 1 : attract more Gen Z audience
Aim 2 : utilize low budget tech to engage audience (has to be easy to prototype)
Aim 3 : create audience engagement without technology
as well as each our individual skills and interests of WSFB. As our main aim is to generate a gen Z audience (which is us) we discussed and got into deep conversation about what would interest us, what would make us excited and want to attend/ buy/ download, and that is how we came up with these ideas. We then did a poll on our group messenger (shown in this photo) where everyone was able to vote on what they liked the best/ thought would be successful. The top 2 choices as shown in the photo is the escape room and campaign. We have sent Sarah an email to share these ideas to see what she thinks and we are just waiting on a response.
In a group meeting we also discussed team roles and who will be in-charge of what which we did up in a table (also shown in this photo).
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