BS. Do you think that Techniquest has a role to play within the local community
here?
CW I think to an extent. I mean I know certainly there are local
groups that use us, you know, as a meeting place and, you know, presumably,
I mean there are probably lots of other places they could meet but I think,
hopefully anyway, they come here because they feel they're going to be, you
know, welcomed and it's going to be a, an easy place to meet in sort of thing
so I think that's good. I mean the local schools come in free so we see a
lot of them. And, you know, if we can help support what they're learning in
school then that, I think that's, you know, that's good. And I think if we
can, I mean, I, you know, park my car nearby and I often see local children
and they say "Oh there's Techniquest" you know and, I think if, it's just
nice to, this sense of it's almost like their place and, you know, they, some
of them come like nearly every week and. I think that, that's going to help
in the long run, I think. You know, there won't be animosity about us because
everyone will've been here and familiar with it and hopefully have lots of
positive experiences about it. I think from that point of view it's good.
And it, it means that, for the local schools often, you know we have, I
don't know, some of the dignitaries down or some royalty or MPs or whatever
and you know, we need to almost like rent-a-crowd but, it kind of, you know
means they get to some of the special things that go on. Half the time they
don't know what, who the people are but ((laughs)) you know, that sort of
thing. It's quite good.
