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In multi-sensory Exhibit we worked with a client, the Discovery Museum in Acton, Massachusetts where we worked on replacing or upgrading some exhibits. I worked with two other people in the studio to replace their magnet exhibit with a new exhibit of our own that would be placed alongside the current one. the exhibit we made was a magnet maze that is supposed to teach kids an early introduction to magnets in the form that opposite magnetic fields attract, for that, we used the standard red and blue to show the different magnetic fields on both a control stick and a 'play piece' in the maze itself and a control rod, which were color-coded. The goal of the maze was to get to the center of the maze and you could either pull the magnet along using a stick of an opposite polarity or push the play piece with a same colored stick and hopefully teaching the user that when using magnets, opposites attract and similar polarities push.

In this studio I came in more or less expecting to jump straight into working on an exhibit and get to work immediately, instead, we spent 2 days getting to understand how to design these exhibits. However, what I was more excited about was being able to work with people on a collaborative project for a second time. It was an interesting as I had to make compromises or accept that we are working on something different to what I wanted but as long as I was able to understand their reasoning I was okay to go with the flow of the project, what I feel as though I need to improve on is doing a more equal amount of work as my teammates as I felt I wasn't doing as much work as them. As what I did was mostly some formatting and presentation work towards the end of the studio and the physical assembly, repairs and installation of the exhibit which I feel as though was not enough compared to what my team mates did.