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Steve Floray
Curator of Collections
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Shepherdstown, WV
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These are often best done made of wood and painted by a local artist or resident artist.

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Thank you, from Marti

Martin CJ Mongiello, MBA, MA, MCFE.

CEO and CMO at The United States Presidential Service Center Foundation Trusts and US Presidential Culinary Museum. White House Military Office badge number 14592, 301 Cleveland Avenue, Grover, NC 28073
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-02-2020 08:51 AM
From: Steven Floray
Subject: Selfie Station

We're renovating our main museum gallery at the National Conservation Training Center. We'd like to include a selfie station where visitors can enjoy a photo op with their favorite conservation hero (Rachel Carson, Teddy Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, etc.) and/or location (Arctic Refuge, National Bison Range, etc.). The initial firm that we consulted with quoted an astronomical sum, which we naturally cannot afford. Does anyone have experience with a similar project and firm that they can recommend? Thank you.

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Steve Floray
Curator of Collections
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Shepherdstown, WV
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Thanks Marti.

We're looking at a technological solution so that visitors may choose to appear next to their favorite conservation hero at the national wildlife refuge of their choice.

Steve

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Steven Floray
Curator
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Shepherdstown WV
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-03-2020 07:33 AM
From: Martin Mongiello
Subject: Selfie Station

These are often best done made of wood and painted by a local artist or resident artist.

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Thank you, from Marti

Martin CJ Mongiello, MBA, MA, MCFE.

CEO and CMO at The United States Presidential Service Center Foundation Trusts and US Presidential Culinary Museum. White House Military Office badge number 14592, 301 Cleveland Avenue, Grover, NC 28073
001 (704) 937-2940

www.PresidentialServiceCenter.org

www.PresidentialCulinaryMuseum.org

GM of The Inn of the Patriots country inn www.TheInnofthePatriots.com

"Enjoy a night at the museum!"

Original Message:
Sent: 03-02-2020 08:51 AM
From: Steven Floray
Subject: Selfie Station

We're renovating our main museum gallery at the National Conservation Training Center. We'd like to include a selfie station where visitors can enjoy a photo op with their favorite conservation hero (Rachel Carson, Teddy Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, etc.) and/or location (Arctic Refuge, National Bison Range, etc.). The initial firm that we consulted with quoted an astronomical sum, which we naturally cannot afford. Does anyone have experience with a similar project and firm that they can recommend? Thank you.

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Steve Floray
Curator of Collections
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Shepherdstown, WV
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Hi Steven
I'd love the opportunity to discuss the project.  We specialize in cost effective solutions and can probably offer you some good options within your budget.  

Chris Meyer
point2explore/Fuel180 Creative
973-882-9411 x113
cm@point2explore.com

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Kevin Meyer
President
C.D. Meyer, Inc./point2explore
Fairfield NJ
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-02-2020 08:51 AM
From: Steven Floray
Subject: Selfie Station

We're renovating our main museum gallery at the National Conservation Training Center. We'd like to include a selfie station where visitors can enjoy a photo op with their favorite conservation hero (Rachel Carson, Teddy Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, etc.) and/or location (Arctic Refuge, National Bison Range, etc.). The initial firm that we consulted with quoted an astronomical sum, which we naturally cannot afford. Does anyone have experience with a similar project and firm that they can recommend? Thank you.

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Steve Floray
Curator of Collections
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Shepherdstown, WV
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Tech will always cost you and it will always break. Always. May I suggest a low tech solution, maybe a revolving door like thing. Perhaps 3 V-shaped "nooks. Each has one hero and one scene, visitors can choose to stand in front of either and/or rotate the door to get to anther hero/backround scene. If you don't want it to rotate (something else that can break), then people can walk around said selfie station. Build in wood and have a graphics/sign company print on sticker material and install the herbs and backgrounds that way. If I were to do this in-house I'd estimate $500 (we have our own large scale printer). Maybe $1,500-$2,000 to have someone do the whole thing for you?  It might take up a 6'x6' to 10'x10' amount of floor space. Good luck to ya.

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Matthew Isble
Exhibit Designer
Crocker Art Museum
Sacramento CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-02-2020 08:51 AM
From: Steven Floray
Subject: Selfie Station

We're renovating our main museum gallery at the National Conservation Training Center. We'd like to include a selfie station where visitors can enjoy a photo op with their favorite conservation hero (Rachel Carson, Teddy Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, etc.) and/or location (Arctic Refuge, National Bison Range, etc.). The initial firm that we consulted with quoted an astronomical sum, which we naturally cannot afford. Does anyone have experience with a similar project and firm that they can recommend? Thank you.

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Steve Floray
Curator of Collections
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Shepherdstown, WV
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Hi, 

The Kidspace Museum in Pasadena has a selfie station.  It's a photo machine with a backdrop. It might be worth asking them about it.
Good luck, Veronica 

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Veronica Aguirre
Los Angeles CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-02-2020 08:51 AM
From: Steven Floray
Subject: Selfie Station

We're renovating our main museum gallery at the National Conservation Training Center. We'd like to include a selfie station where visitors can enjoy a photo op with their favorite conservation hero (Rachel Carson, Teddy Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, etc.) and/or location (Arctic Refuge, National Bison Range, etc.). The initial firm that we consulted with quoted an astronomical sum, which we naturally cannot afford. Does anyone have experience with a similar project and firm that they can recommend? Thank you.

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Steve Floray
Curator of Collections
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Shepherdstown, WV
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 I know that the Jewish Museum in Manhattan on the upper East Side last year had a life-size photo
of Houdini on a wall. Visitors could your museum had slides made of famous conservationists and
projected them on a wall, whether it be possible to make a selfie next to a slide projection?
That could cost very little to do. I imagine many older photos are in public domain.

Anyway, i merely thinking out loud.

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Louis Phillips
Writer/Professor
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-02-2020 08:51 AM
From: Steven Floray
Subject: Selfie Station

We're renovating our main museum gallery at the National Conservation Training Center. We'd like to include a selfie station where visitors can enjoy a photo op with their favorite conservation hero (Rachel Carson, Teddy Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, etc.) and/or location (Arctic Refuge, National Bison Range, etc.). The initial firm that we consulted with quoted an astronomical sum, which we naturally cannot afford. Does anyone have experience with a similar project and firm that they can recommend? Thank you.

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Steve Floray
Curator of Collections
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Shepherdstown, WV
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Using a high def photograph printed on large scale printer and attached to foam core or wood cut out is surprisingly cost effective and perfectly fine for selfies!!! 

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Carol Knox
Chicago IL
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-02-2020 08:51 AM
From: Steven Floray
Subject: Selfie Station

We're renovating our main museum gallery at the National Conservation Training Center. We'd like to include a selfie station where visitors can enjoy a photo op with their favorite conservation hero (Rachel Carson, Teddy Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, etc.) and/or location (Arctic Refuge, National Bison Range, etc.). The initial firm that we consulted with quoted an astronomical sum, which we naturally cannot afford. Does anyone have experience with a similar project and firm that they can recommend? Thank you.

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Steve Floray
Curator of Collections
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Shepherdstown, WV
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