This document outlines plans for an exhibit on accidental inventions. It will feature four sections on food, medicine, industry, and everyday life. Each section will include interactive displays and artifacts to showcase inventions like Coca-Cola bottles, the microwave, x-rays, vulcanized rubber, Play-Doh, and Post-it notes. The exhibit aims to surprise visitors and spark discussion on how accidental discoveries revolutionized modern life. A team of five is assigned roles to research content, manage social media, record meeting notes, oversee the project, and design graphics.

1. Tracy Armogan • Laura Armstrong • Lindsey Horn • Matthew Leifer • Sara Van De Carr

2. ACCIDENTAL INVENTIONS
 BIG IDEA
 Accidental discoveries made during deliberate innovation have had a
profound impact on daily life.
 Target Audience: Families with children and elementary/middle school
age children

3. GOALS
 Learning Goals:
 Accidental inventions have changed the way we look at modern medicine.
 Accidental inventions have changed the way we look at food.
 Accidental Inventions have changed the way we look at industry.
 Accidental inventions have changed the way we live our everyday lives.
 Experience Goals:
 Surprise
 Commentary/Discussion
 Realization

4. ACCIDENTAL INVENTIONS

5. GRAPHIC LOOK AND FEEL

6. EXHIBIT LABELS

7. FOOD
 Interactives:
 Retro Soda Counter
 Coca-ColaVoting
Bottles
 Build-Your-Own
Saccharin
 Toll House Favorite
Recipes
 Touchscreen
Microwave
 Artifacts:
 Historic Coca-Cola
dispensers
 Early Radarange
 Fridge with original
Teflon cookware

8. FOOD

9. MODERN MEDICENE
 Interactives:
 “Be a Radiologist”
experience
 Pacemaker
Touchscreen
 Artifacts:
 Example x-ray films
 Geissler Tube
 Original/Current
pacemakers
 Petri dishes

10. MODERN MEDICENE

11. INDUSTRY
 Interactives:
 “SortYour Plastics”
 Goodyear’s Kitchen
 Multiple
Touchscreens
 Touch Table of
Vulcanized Rubber
 Artifacts:
 Bakelite products:
bracelets, jewlery,
game pieces, billiard
balls, toy cars
 Potbelly Stove
(Goodyear’s Kitchen)
 Safety Glass vs.
Regular Glass

12. INDUSTRY

13. EVERYDAY LIFE
 Interactives:
 Timeline Play-Doh
touchscreen
 Invention Question
Post-itWall
 BioFoam Exploration
Station
 With videos
 Touch sections
 Artifacts:
 Historic Play-Doh
containers
 Post-it Note art
 BioFoam Peanuts

14. EVERYDAY LIFE

15. INVENTION STATION
 Interactives:
 Create-your-own
Invention!

16. ORIGINS
Tracy Armogan- Content Researcher
Laura Armstrong- Social Media/Researcher
Lindsey Horn- Secretary/Researcher
Matthew Leifer- Project Manager
Sara Van De Carr- Graphic Designer