Food Fighters!

Food Fighters is an interactive exhibit for the Ontario Science Centre (Kidspark). Made within the Co-Lab (NMA830) course at TMU.

My Role: Worked as Project Coordinator & Media and Content support.

Project Coordinator: Planned and organized the team’s meetings, due dates and budgeted our materials.
Concept Designed: 6 out of 10 characters!
- Made a storyboard to see what screen leads to what
Content Research:
- Researched five out of ten foods about their nutritional value and how it applies to our characters. Made the stats of those characters as well!
- Made the explanation screen and the failed ending screen.

Our Plan and Message:

Intended to educate kids on how food is energy for our bodies and how not all foods are “harmful”!
Our exhibit simulates a dining table: a game to find the food combination that gives the most energy. The objective of our exhibit is to teach children that food provides energy to our bodies through sugar/glucose, and we will specifically be focusing on showing how different types of food can release energy to the body differently.

Challenges and solutions

Our audience:
- The scale:
  - It was a difficult task figuring out how big our project needed to be to make it suitable for kids! We tested and formed our table first with how big the screen was going to be, and the fabrication team went from there!
- Concept design:
  - Brainstorming the designs of each character was also difficult, as we tried to design our characters as simple and fun for kids to make them as eye-catching as possible.
Team Work:
- Budgeting:
  - Made a Google Sheet to put down materials and prices for each product we needed
- Planning & Organization
  - Master calendar of the semester with due dates and meeting times
  - Making Google Forms to keep things anonymous when deciding topics as a group, and having scheduled meetings each week to keep on track!
  - Having a hard and soft deadline for each assignment or task
  - Adjusting to everyone’s time and planning accordingly to make time most efficient.