Poster Presentation

Attracting an Audience

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Abstract

              Attracting an audience can be a difficult task depending on what you are trying to show and the type of people you are attempting to attract. For the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project our team strived to include as many different people as possible to participate, regardless of their background. We have reached out to communities in San Antinio, New Orleans, and Camp Mitchell in Arkansas. Our team had everyone from students, professors, engineers, hotel managers, parents, and their children participate in launching weather balloons, collecting data, and more. In total we managed to perform outreach to well over hundreds of different people. While it can be difficult to ensure that we were still able to perform our duties while adding on the extra task of showing others and having them help perform our experiments. We managed to develop a pretty good way of ensuring that both our data was collected accurately and giving satisfaction of helping to our participants. This includes having our individual task for each member of the team, while having another member help explain what is happening in the often quick and sometimes, chaotic, moments we would find ourselves in. The good thing about being able to watch us work in real time is the participants also get to see the unexpected troubles we would run into while trying to perform our task in a timely fashion. 

Keywords: Team Building, Outreach, Community, Participation

How to Cite:

McKinley, C., (2024) “Attracting an Audience”, Academic High Altitude Conference 2024(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/ahac.17987