More on The Leo Zone
Today we're happy to have another guest writer. This is from Rodney in The Leo Zone.
The Leonardo on Library Square is currently hosting BODY WORLDS 3-The Story of the Heart. While this traveling exhibit is known worldwide, The Leonardo is having it's coming out party with "The Leo Demo Zone." As visitors come out of Body Worlds the enter an area of hands-on, interactive exhibits developed by The Leonardo programming staff.
In contrast to the exhibits inside BODY WORLDS 3, in The Leo Zone visitors are encouraged and even required to touch the exhibits, explore, and learn at their own pace. What strikes me the most every time I'm working in the zone is how enthralled people get when they finally get a chance to explore and interact with our materials in their own way. They put the digital microscope on their heads, fingers, even in their ears trying desperately to see what the doctor sees when they go in for a check up. They look up various details about their bodies on the Real Anatomy software, and their eyes light up when they hold a real plastinated human heart or liver.
Excitement is the only word to describe the expressions I see on the visitors' faces who come to the Leo Zone. And here's the really cool part; the excitement is on the adults' faces as well as the kids. Normally reserved, even stoic, people are transformed into curious giggling kids totally engrossed in the activity of the moment and the wonder of discovery. Now where else have I witnessed a 12 year old and a 50 year, complete strangers to one another, laughing and sharing an experience based around seeing their hair appear the size of a telephone cord on a 40-inch screen.
As I sit here writing, in fact, a group of teens are 100% immersed in the "Under Pressure" exhibit. A computer program that lets you see how much pressure is on each of your butt cheeks when you sit down. I just overheard one of the girls say "this makes me happy inside." For me, that's what makes this whole place called The Leonardo worth all the effort we've put in and all the work yet to come.
Posted by: Rodney
The Leonardo on Library Square is currently hosting BODY WORLDS 3-The Story of the Heart. While this traveling exhibit is known worldwide, The Leonardo is having it's coming out party with "The Leo Demo Zone." As visitors come out of Body Worlds the enter an area of hands-on, interactive exhibits developed by The Leonardo programming staff. In contrast to the exhibits inside BODY WORLDS 3, in The Leo Zone visitors are encouraged and even required to touch the exhibits, explore, and learn at their own pace. What strikes me the most every time I'm working in the zone is how enthralled people get when they finally get a chance to explore and interact with our materials in their own way. They put the digital microscope on their heads, fingers, even in their ears trying desperately to see what the doctor sees when they go in for a check up. They look up various details about their bodies on the Real Anatomy software, and their eyes light up when they hold a real plastinated human heart or liver.
Excitement is the only word to describe the expressions I see on the visitors' faces who come to the Leo Zone. And here's the really cool part; the excitement is on the adults' faces as well as the kids. Normally reserved, even stoic, people are transformed into curious giggling kids totally engrossed in the activity of the moment and the wonder of discovery. Now where else have I witnessed a 12 year old and a 50 year, complete strangers to one another, laughing and sharing an experience based around seeing their hair appear the size of a telephone cord on a 40-inch screen.
As I sit here writing, in fact, a group of teens are 100% immersed in the "Under Pressure" exhibit. A computer program that lets you see how much pressure is on each of your butt cheeks when you sit down. I just overheard one of the girls say "this makes me happy inside." For me, that's what makes this whole place called The Leonardo worth all the effort we've put in and all the work yet to come.Posted by: Rodney
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