Week 7: In preparation for the 1970s Flashback Day, I have largely been working on promotional materials and developing the finer details of the Bake Off. I created three different Instagram post images for social media and two different Instagram story designs. It would have taken some time to get approval for a new design for a physical flyer, so a pre-approved layout was used with the bake-off information.  

As of right now, one of my designs has been approved and posted onto the official Greensboro History Museum Instagram page, and both of my stories have been used to promote the event. We have people signed up in each of the three baking categories, but I hope to see more people register to bake so that it’s not just me judging two people each round. I plan on getting more prints of the flyer and posting it around campus and other areas of Greensboro. 

I am currently writing historical context for each dessert so that I can discuss during the bake-off and explain how each dish relates to the 1970s and Greensboro specifically. Also, I am actively working on securing judges for the bake-off. With the assistance of Amy Moyer, Director of Culinary Medicine at UNCG, I have been introduced to someone with a distinctive background in cooking and experience in talking about health, nutrition, and dieting. I hope to secure all of my judges by the end of the week.  

For this week, we had one group come for the summer program. This was about 35-40 middle school students ranging from 6^th to 8^th grade. The bus was late picking up the students, and with the traffic from construction downtown, we had to make the decision to cut the first hour of the summer program. Instead of six stations, traveling all three floors of the museum, we only did the three activities on the first floor and gave them a brief look at a section of the second floor for better context for the assigned activities.  

My activity reflects on a past exhibit called Pieces of Now, which displayed about twenty protest murals from downtown Greensboro during 2020. I introduce to the students the idea of murals as a large art form to express their feelings, their experiences, and their hopes for change or continuity in their lives and the world. From the large murals, I shift into the idea of postcards as a smaller form to express big emotions and ideas with few words and small images. 

 With a few examples of postcards and murals, I ask them to draw/write a postcard to themselves in 100 years of what they would like to see in the world. This can be as simple as they want to see their house or their favorite show in the future, or something as large as they want to see less violence or more food in the world. It is up to them what they want to remember in 100 years and what values they want to see reflected. 

 Personal or general, serious or absurd, all interests and depictions are accepted as long as they can verbally communicate about their postcard and their desires for the future, their understanding of the past, or their feelings about the present. The students are provided with general questions to help them reflect on what they envision and how they can portray that on the card.  

The hour went by quickly, and everyone seemed to be happy with their experience at the museum. After walking the group to the next-door park, we would proceed to clean up the activities in the museum. Following our lunch break, we interns were given an array of flyers promoting the 1970s Flash Back Day on July 12^th. We were asked to tape the flyers around downtown in different key spots that would be of interest in the event in general or in certain activities during that day.  

After visiting a few spots, the sky transformed into an absolute downpour with strong, windy, and cold rain. As some interns ran back to the museum, others walked in the rain and thunder. However, as we neared the museum, all of us got to wave to the bus of middle schoolers in the pouring rain as their bus drove past, and so did their chorus of laughter. While we were soaked, it felt good to have the students leave with at least one fun story about the museum.