Various work-study programs for undergraduate students have been used by us to pay student assistant for work done in preparing displays and presenting them to the public. We also get Science and Technology Week T-shirts to give to volunteers. If there is a science store in your mall, approach them for cooperation. In Canada, Science and Technology Week provides easier access to help with organizing, financing and advertising, as well as attractive T-shirts for volunteers and as prizes. Advertising Local community papers and school boards are the most effective instruments, but try everything available.
Most community papers are very enthusiastic, as are some local radio stations.
Math in the Malls across Canada Kathy Heinrich described our displays in the article Science Awareness Week Project , in the May - June 1992 issue of CMS Notes. The first response was from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University. In October 1992, as a part of Science and Technology Week, Ed Williams and Bruce Shawyer organized an event in the Village Shopping Mall in St. John's. The exhibit was extremely well received and became an annual event. In 1994 it was expanded to a Math and Science in the Mall multi-display, with twelve different group participating, and attracted between four and five thousand people.