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‘The Hangar’ helps the Air Force get new recruits
THE SETUP: Today’s youth are a lot more likely to understand how to use a video game controller than a wrench. So when the Air Force set out to fill its severely depleted pool of equipment maintainers with new recruits, it needed to leverage technology to make the hands-on job more appealing and accessible to...
Potential Air Force recruits get down to work for a day
WHY THE JUDGES LOVE IT: The Air Force wanted to generate awareness for its much-needed maintainer positions while showing potential, tech-savvy recruits what it’s like to repair something with their hands. Inside two 39-foot, connected trailers designed to look like an Air Force hangar, attendees moved through six different activity stations featuring Leap Motion, Microsoft...
National Park Campaign Targets Diverse Millennials
More than 273 million people visited national parks in 2013, although 75 percent of them were more than 40 years old and disproportionately Caucasian, a statistic out of sync with America’s diverse population. For its 100th anniversary, the National Park Service launched Find Your Park, a two-year, multi-city tour designed to stimulate the next generation...
Canadian Museum Visually Interprets Immigration
Visitors are immediately immersed into Canada’s immigration story through a visual motif that starts as a monochromatic palette then becomes a vibrant mosaic pattern by the end. Highlights include a tree recreation with an 18-foot canopy of foliage and a colonist train car that visitors sit in while listening to oral histories of real immigrants....