Detroit, MI
Spring Break Shenanigans.
A Radiation Safety Manager and a Six Sigma green belt walk into a manufacturing exhibit at the science museum. The safety guy is disturbed because the caution signs are incomplete. They don't tell how to prevent the hazard. The Six Sigma gal determines that the assembly line simulation is not 5S-compliant and is further irritated that it is a push vs. pull operation and lacks detailed kanbans. Oh and where's the takt time board? These kids are taking way too much time on this project. Welcome to our world. The Rennhack struggle is real. Awesome museum nonetheless and the planetarium is a winner.
Turning the deaf child loose in the sound exhibit. I apologize to all patrons within a 20 ft radius of Lisa. She was exuberant and very, very loud. Love her.
We spent the afternoon at the Michigan Science Center in Detroit. Early on we walked through the space exhibits, a real space shuttle overhead, and the kids each took a turn crossing the indoor walkway built to look like the Mackinac Bridge.
Down in the engineering zone Thomas and Lisa took turns driving little battery-powered forklifts around a fenced course, and Thomas tried an air-cannon game shooting foam balls at targets. The same zone had exhibits on a hot mix asphalt plant and a tunnel boring machine. We found a big foam block pit built up like a construction site, and an exhibit of two couch-potato sculptures sitting in front of a tiny TV.
We caught a show in the planetarium, where I snapped the four of us together in the dark theater. On the way out we stopped at a photo-op board with astronaut suits cut out for faces, and each of us took a turn.
