Internship Diversity: Education & Archives

This week at the National Watch and Clock Museum, the Make and Take event was even more successful with eight people coming to take part in the event. In between helping children make the CD and flip-flop clocks, my volunteer and I created an Elf on a Shelf Clock. It was an easy project to do at home by taking a box (cereal or a regular box) adding a clock motion, wrapping the box with Christmas wrapping paper, and adding the Elf on the Shelf paper design. In addition to these activities, I copied another lecture slideshow into a PowerPoint. This week also marked the first trip to an outside child care facility to have children make a CD clock.The children seemed to enjoy the experience and especially liked the coloring pages of different clocks found at the Museum.

Make and Take participants can make a Flip-Flop Clock.

In the Library, I continued working through the boxes of the James Gibbs Collection in the Archives to write the numbers of the back of each paper. I was able to start on Box 4 of 5, which means I should be able to finish next week hopefully. The library also received a large collection of photographs, which the other intern and I will begin working on this week. Luckily, the photographs are already separated with dates so going through the boxes will be much easier than the other collections I have gone through.

Sarah, Penn State University

Museum Intern