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Emily Reinl posted a reply on Re: Simple, easy-to-learn tasks for volunteers?
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Said: Hi Kathryn,At Discovery Museum in Acton, MA, we have both one-off corporate volunteer groups and groups of SPED students who come to volunteer (we call them "Work Experience" volunteers). Corporate group tasks inclu...
John Richardson posted a reply on Re: Mounting Exhibit Pieces
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Said: I agree with Megan. At my former facility, I had to install a cash register, phone, and credit card machine with bolts to keep them from being moved.
Kristen Lowrey posted a reply on Re: Best Practices for Reducing No-Shows in Fre...
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Said: For our free workshops, we generally do signups same day. We often will do several workshops in sequence (for example, one at 11am, one at 12:30pm, 2pm, etc.), and open signups an hour before the workshop happens. We ask people to come ...
Tiffani Egnor posted a reply on Re: Best Practices for Reducing No-Shows in Fre...
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Said: I had this issue in the past as well and we calculated the numbers for no shows to get an average for our past programs. For one of our programs the no shows averaged 50% of registered participants. Then we overbooked the registration b...
Erik Fiks posted a reply on Re: Mounting Exhibit Pieces
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Said: We have used industrial 2" Velcro strips for our several cash registers mounted on top of glass display cabinets. We 1st installed a flat sheet of cintra underneath the register in order to mount the Velcro onto. Can send pics if needed...
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