New Take on Project
I had another interview with another professor. She took the project idea in a new direction: imagine a creative center for science people. Part networking but mostly part displaying science people being creative.She envisioned not just creative writing, but songs, artwork, videos, etc. she wanted something that as a professor you could go to for examples of a lab experiment come to life in a fun unique way. The more I thought about it the more I like the idea of not excluding any creative genre. I'm still working to define exactly what I'm looking for from potential contributors, but I've already toyed with the idea of a website like the one she suggests and I think it would appeal to a wider audience - not just creative material by science professors for science professors, but also for high school science teachers and science hobbyists - people I hadn't really considered before.
I've been working my college network and have an interview with my alma mater's president and am going to set up meetings with someone from our alumni network. I am also looking for insight from people currently in this industry but am skeptical of whether or not they will actually respond to me. I am also talking my idea up every chance I get and came away with a potential 5 - 10 people to talk to. Now I just have to make that contact happen.
I think this has proven the idea is viable/people are interested, now I just need to define it in a more professional manner, solicit contributions/get people aware of my project, and execute it by launching a website of some sort.
wish me luck!
