Month at the Museum

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Remember when you were a kid in grade school and your class took a field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry?  You spent the day marching in a group from exhibit to exhibit, holding hands with your 'field trip buddy' so you wouldn't get lost, eating your smushed PB&J sammich and drinking your lukewarm can of pop downstairs in the museum cafeteria during lunch break?  You got to climb around in an old submarine, take a ride in a coal cart down a mine shaft, see some really gross anatomical stuff and explore Colleen Moore's Miniature Fairy Castle.  If your 'trip buddy' was a boy, you usually didn't get to spend much time looking at the fairy castle...

Was it just me or did every kid want to somehow get left behind (for at least one night) so you could explore the place completely on your own?  Well now's your chance.  The Museum of Science and Industry is looking for someone  

...to take on a once-in-a-lifetime assignment: spend a Month at the Museum, to live and breathe science 24/7 for 30 days. From October 20 to November 18, 2010, this person's mission will be to experience all the fun and education that fits in this historic 14-acre building, living here full-time and reporting your findings to the outside world.
~ Month at the Museum

This innovative experiment by the largest science museum in the Western Hemisphere is a science lover's dream come true - plus, the person selected will walk away at the end of the month with some technical goodies and $10,000.

The selection process includes submittal of a 60-second video, a 5x7 photo, a 500-word essay; and a detailed application.  There are a number of requirements (including, for some reason, the ability to lift up to 40 lbs) and restrictions, like no smoking and no guests after the Museum is closed to the public. 

And they plan to put the winner to work - meeting and interacting with Museum visitors, performing science demonstrations and reporting daily (via some type of computer journal) on his/her experiences at the Museum.  Did I mention that the winner will also have access to his/her own 'home' within the Museum?  That woud be the glass cube up there, designed by CB2 for the 'chic science geek'.

At least the winner will have somewhere comfy to sleep once the novelty of sleeping on the Zephyr or in the U-Boat wears off.

Get your application going now - all entries must be submitted by August 11th.