Studebaker+experience

**__Studebaker Experience__** - hands-on interactive display for HOST - permanent on wheels
Telling the Story. ..


 * 1) Parallel story of building wagons vs. building cars
 * 2) Have a wagon and a car on display that kids can sit in/on
 * 3) Look at design considerations
 * wagon - each has own design vs. car design - skills needed to design - rough sketch vs. blueprints?
 * What does an engineer do? What skills and education does an engineer need?
 * Computer design - mini Cooper vs. Studebaker - in appropriate $$ units - economics lesson
 * 1) Look at building considerations
 * Pile of parts - build wagon or car - 1/4 scale models - have parts available to actually build many
 * What if you want to build 20 of these? Assembly line vs. one-at-a-time - would be a great class exercise for school groups
 * 1) What happens behind the scenes at the [|Studebaker Museum] once they receive a new donation?
 * How to refurbish an old wagon
 * How to refurbish an old car
 * How to trace the history of such a thing
 * Other tasks
 * 1) Record history of Studebaker
 * video recordings of behind the scenes stuff and of people who worked at Studebaker
 * audio recordings of same
 * Studebaker merged with Packard - 1955
 * Studebaker bought by Worthington - 1960's?
 * Sole U.S. distributer of Mercedes Benz in 1955? - Eisenhower bail-out
 * 1) Get Play that was once done at old Studebaker building revived
 * 2) 360 degree video of old showroom - SBCSC building
 * 3) Sales then and now
 * 4) What if questions spread throughout - What if you needed to make 100 of these - most efficient? - best quality?
 * 5) Transitions in building over time: springs, rubber tires, powered engines, quieter cars, safer cars . ..