On February 17, we started finalizing our report and started making our slides for the presentation. In the afternoon, we met with our mentor and practiced the presentation and got some feedback for the report and presentation from him. By Saturday, Julie finished the drawing and put it into the report.
The week of February 20-24 was Reading Break at UBC, so we all had time to prepare for our presentation that Thursday. Alyssa finalized the report and Powerpoint by Tuesday, giving everyone time to review it and practice for the meeting with Science World.
On Thursday, February 23, we presented our designed project to our clients, Mila and Rhoda, at Science World. Although the design concept was accepted well by our clients, there were some aspects of the design process where they wished to have more information. For example, they desired more detail on how we arrived on our final design, including the following: other preliminary ideas, links to videos and pages which inspired us, and further detail of our testing process.
As this desired information was not included in our report, Rhoda asked us to email her any additional files, data, and links which would assist Science World in continuing the design of this exhibit. Despite some short-comings, we believe that the Beach Table concept was well accepted, opening Rhoda’s mind to many new ideas and concepts. As this was the main objective of our project, we are pleased with the outcome and have thoroughly enjoyed our time with Science World.