Knox County - Vincennes University and the Red Skelton Museum

So the Connect with Southern Indiana session on March 21, 2014 was held in Knox County. We started the day in the Indiana Center for Applied Technology auditorium on the Vincennes University campus.

The content portion of the day started with challenging each group to connect points accross the different ideas that had been developed through the ideation process thus far. The ideation process caused an explosion of thoughts and now the task is to bring them back down to combine and condense into feasible ideas. 

Our group had three main concepts, but many of the ideas were able to be tied to the other concepts in some way. By the end of the day we had 3 giant post-it's, narrowed down from 9. Many of the groups had a lot more than 9 to try and combine. 





We next presented one of the ideas that our group had to the entire Connect class. Already it became apparent that ideas were starting to take off in each group that would later become the foundation for something bigger. 

Coach K and Coach B then went over the elements of a Feasibility Analysis, which each group would be presenting next session. The task now was to pick two ideas to do a feasibility analysis for and then pick one to present to everyone next session. 

Our group split in two. 2 people liked one idea and the other 2 liked another idea. This worked well, because each pair then did a feasibility analysis. We then met the following week and combined both ideas into a compromise between the two. 



After lunch at the Knox Connect session, we went to tour the Red Skelton Museum. 

"The Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy honors the legacy of a man who touched numerous lives through his comedic talent, great works, compassion and commitment to public service. As museums reflect history, ideas, innovation, discovery, diversity, creative expression and the ideals of democracy, so too will the Skelton Museum present these ideals to the visiting public in celebration of the exceptional man whose greatest ambition was to bring laughter to countless audiences."

from http://www.redskeltonmuseum.org/.

After leaving the Red Skelton Museaum, some people went to the Windy Knoll Winery for wine tasting and relaxing on one of the first beautiful days of the year! More information about Windy Knoll at  http://windyknollwinery.com/.