Becky
Visionary Potentiator of Pumped Up Kids

Favorite Exhibit: The Skin Crawl Wall

Favorite Thing About Working at HW: Being able to be around kids and great adults all the time!

Favorite Program: I love Don’t Laugh at Me (now known as It’s Not Cool to Be Cruel) because what it talks about is so important!

Funniest Experience at HW: It’s hard to think of just one thing because we all laugh all of the time! Every day I laugh when I watch and hang out with kids at the Dental Exhibit. If all dentists were as funny as they are, everyone would want to go to the dentist all the time.

Colleen
Funster of Facts and Follies

Favorite Exhibit: Skin Crawl Wall - It's totally experiential!!!!

Favorite Thing About Working at HW: Is that I feel I have the opportunity to touch the livse of children and give them information that will help them to make good choices that will make our lives richer.

Favorite Program: The change Will Do You Good, our sex education program, becuase I realize the importance of giving accurate information to children who get thier information from unreliable sources such as friends and television. Answering questions that you realize have been worrying children and taking the fear out of growing up is the most rewarding job in the world.

Funniest Experience at HW: Involves sex education so it wouldn't be appropriate to tell you.

Mo
Techno Wiz

Favorite Exhibit: I like it when the girl sneezes. It’s always good for a laugh. And of course the zit always grosses me out.

Favorite Thing About Working at HW: Most of all I enjoy trying out all kinds of new things. Since I work with putting together the exhibits and the shows in the classrooms, I get to let my imagination run away with me. It’s someone else’s job to bring it back.

Favorite Program: I love Brendan’s World Talking to a kid throughout his day and helping him make the best decision is what we’re all about at HW!

Funniest Experience at HW: I bring my kids into work with me sometimes. And of course every time they’re here they get an All About Me card. I get to look back at all the different poses they’ve thought up, and see how they’ve grown since we opened.

Josh
Captain of the Universe

Favorite Exhibit: My Favorite Exhibit: is the All About Me computer. It is great to sit down one on one with the kids and interact with them.

Favorite Thing About Working at HW: Do I have to name just one?! I love working with children. My co-workers are the funniest, energizing and most creative creatures on the planet. I love participating in outreach programs. I also like working with the Hummer and creating different summer camps.

Favorite Program: Bike Safety because I am one of the instructors. I love teaching and watching the ‘light bulb’ turn on above a child’s head. A child’s energy, imagination and creativeness is something more adults need to work on in their daily lives.

Funniest Experience at HW: That would be working with Meredith at the fair. We were playing jump rope & limbo with the intestines (on the Hummer). We also were carrying them over everyone’s heads. Jeanne and I also feasted on caviar, mineral water and filet mignon in our tie-dye shirts at the hospitals formal dedication dinner . . . Do you have any grey pupon?

Jewel
Spectacular Star of Scheduling Sanity

Favorite Exhibit: Virus Invaders. I love to see how high we can get the score to be.

Favorite Thing About Working at HW: The staff and well we work together as a team

Favorite Program: Brendan’s World because I love interacting with ‘Brendan and Bob’. I also like that everyone in the class gets to learn things that will improve their lives.

Funniest Experience at HW: I was teaching a class of 2nd graders about ‘The Amazing Body’, trying to get the next 2 kids at the kiosks to guess the word LUNGS. After giving the hint – ‘They help you breath’ I turned over a picture of a pair of lungs. One of the little boys at the game show kiosks face beamed and he quickly slammed his button while yelling out his answer . . . testicles!!! His teachers and I laughed for quite a while about that answer.

Meredith
High Flying Kid Motivator

Favorite Exhibit: The All About Me Computers

Favorite Thing About Working at HW: I get to meet and have a blast with kids from all over every day! Everyone and everything is always so much fun here.

Favorite Program: Info Organs because of all the games we get to play and all the information you learn at the same time, it makes learning very exciting. I also love Come to Your Senses because the area is fascinating to learn and teach about.

Funniest Experience at HW: I can't this of one particular experience because everyday at HW! is filled with humor.

Jeanne
High Flying Kid Motivator

Favorite Exhibit: Virus Invaders

Favorite Thing About Working at HW: The children give me so much energy and laughter. I love their views on life. They say the most amazing things! Plus the staff that works here could not be better.

Favorite Program: The Choice Is Yours. It is so fun to teach because the kids are able to improvise and be creative. It’s fun and gets an important message across. It allows kids to explore different choices and their consequences.

Funniest Experience at HW: Driving the Hummer to the Indianapolis Black Expo with Laura and Joe. We had the best time and the people were great. The people of Indy could not believe their eyes when we came rolling into town!

Donna
Whizband Wonder Hostess

Favorite Exhibit: The Touch and Feel. I like to guess!

Favorite Thing About Working at HW: Working with my great co-workers; seeing the smiles of enjoyment on the children’s faces; being proud that Memorial supports in this effort to make such a wonderful place available to all children.

Favorite Program: Walk in my Shoes and Don’t Laugh at Me because they contain such important material about how we relate to each other.

Funniest Experience at HW: Trying to breathe and follow Colleen as we danced up and down the steps in Katie’s Learning Loft during a staff meeting.

Laura
High Flying Kid Motivator

Favorite Exhibit: The Skin Crawl Wall! Plus, I love the huge mite and hair shaft.

Favorite Thing About Working at HW: Keeping the kid inside myself alive and the great people I work with and meet every day.

Favorite Program: Info-Organs because I love teaching (and learning) about how the human body works and playing the games we play as a class.

Funniest Experience at HW: Every moment seems funnier than the last - I go home at night and my face hurts from laughing so much.

Martha
High Flying Kid Motivator

Favorite Exhibit: Virus Invaders!! It’s great fun to get rid of all those nasty germs.

Favorite Thing About Working at HW: The kids, the people at HW! And watching adults have fun like kids!

Favorite Program: It’s Not Cool To Be Cruel because if we can make a difference in the classroom with the students, celebrating uniqueness, and eradicate the bullying then we’ve done our job. A healthy self-esteem is a healthy child.

Funniest Experience at HW: When a third grade group came in for a program and my group was on the exhibit floor first. One young lady couldn’t wait to show the place to her friend who had never been here before. Upon seeing the floor from the doorway, she exclaimed loudly ‘See, there’s the testicles over there (pointing toward the intestines from floor to ceiling). Those right there, the testicles!!’ She was so excited and I was so afraid when I gave the quick over view of our floor ‘Please take only one picture of yourselves at All About Me. Please only climb on the skin not on the eyeballs of the …(pause)… intestines!

Ashley
High Flying Kid Motivator

Favorite Exhibit: I love the All About Me Computers. They are a great way to teach kids about themselves.

Favorite Thing About Working at HW: I really enjoy working with kids of all ages, it is very rewarding. Also my coworkers are the best.

Favorite Program: My favorite program is Don’t Laugh at Me. I love how it teaches kids that everyone is different and that it's ok.

Funniest Experience at HW: Once a seven-year-old boy said to me "Hey, come here," then he said, "I think you're attractive," after that he ran down the stairs with his class and left.