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The Levine museum of the new south - Noah Carpenter - Week 1

 




My first day I meet with Alexander at VAPA Center. He told me what I will be doing at the museum. He also told me the museum is currently out of there normal space because of it being to old but Wells Fargo gave them a free space for a couple of years. He also told me that my big project that I will be presenting is how they can get more younger audiences at the museum.

Tuesday

On this day I was assigned to be at the front desk of the museum and check people in and introduce them to the museum. I worked with Sonja and she showed me how to do the job. It was pretty fun interacting with everyone and cool seeing how many people were visiting Charlotte. There was also a world cup game happening so we had a lot of people who know nothing about Charlotte visit us.

Wednesday

On Wednesday it was a remote day and I was told to listen to there podcast and watch there "youth voices" videos on YouTube. There podcast was just on history of Charlotte and was about ten episodes overall. The youth voices is what I liked they got students from different backgrounds to talk about Mental Health and the History Curriculum which I thought was really cool.

Thursday 

Thursday I was back at the front desk in the museum checking people in and this time I was with someone named sherry and she was very nice to work with. There were still people from the world cup game so I got to interact with more people and explain the history of Charlotte to them.

Friday

On Friday I was asked to put a Google doc together on what I liked and didn't like about the podcast and what they could expand on. I worked on that and also told them they could do more youth voices videos and do different themes that are more popular with gen-z like civil rights movements    
 






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