I've just finished the second week of my internship at the i.d.e.a. Museum, and it's been a busy one! I'm gathering results from the survey on the museum's website and analyzing web traffic with the help of the museum's marketing director, LaTonya Jordan-Smith. But the museum's staff is small, and I've found myself helping out in many different areas of work. On Wednesday I found myself in the workroom getting my hands dirty and ripping apart electronics with the exhibit designers!

Last week I talked about the adobe brick project I was getting started on, and we've been playing around with different mixtures to see what can be safely and easily used by the kids who come to the museum. That project is heavy on drying time, so meanwhile I helped build models for architectural designs that will be used in some high school classrooms.

Meanwhile publication day is approaching fast for Young Authors of Arizona (March 14th at Phoenix Book Company). Here's an interesting graph of the visit length data from our Tumblr from February 15th to February 28th:
Visits to our Tumblr are split almost in half between brief visits and interested ones.
Visitors who spent less than 30 seconds on our page tended to click on one post and leave the website, while visitors who spent longer than an hour clicked around the various links on the page. It's still hard to see what attracts those short-term visitors to the page (or what makes them leave) as the activity seems quite random, but hopefully I'll start seeing patterns.

It's been a great week--while this may seem obvious, spending the entire day around cute, happy kids definitely does wonders for your mood. Everyone at the i.d.e.a. Museum is always super cheerful and sweet, always having a great time, and it's not difficult to see why!