Peak Pass Exhibits

Each visitor picks up a Peak Pass card and checks in at a sign-in station. The visitors’ information is entered into a database that records their data at Peak Pass–activated exhibits throughout the exhibition.

Science and health content: Heart valves and chambers. Electricity makes your heart beat. 
The steady “lub-dub” of a beating heart is a universally reassuring sound, but what does it mean? After inserting a Peak Pass at one of two stations, the visitor grabs the handles at this exhibit component with both hands. The visitor’s heart rate displays onscreen both as an EKG and in beats per minute, in sync with a scientific animation of a beating heart

Science and health content: Your heart is a muscle. Exercise your heart.
After inserting his or her Peak Pass, the visitor pedals a virtual-reality stationary bike along a simulated mountain trail. Onscreen, the visitor’s heart rate is displayed with his or her target heart rate (determined by age and gender from the Peak Pass database).

Science and health content: Cold changes your body. Help your body protect itself.
Your body protects its vital organs from cold with amazing involuntary reactions: goose bumps, shivering, and vasoconstriction. To experience these reactions and document the effect of wind chill on body temperature, the visitor places a hand in a “cold box” that generates a chilly wind. The visitor then compares the rate of dropping skin temperatures on the side of the hand in the wind to the one not in the wind—with dramatic results.

Science and health content: Genetics, age, and environment influence body size.
After swiping the Peak Pass, visitors spread their arms wide to have their height and reach captured on video and displayed real-time on a large video monitor. The visitor’s height and arm span data are plotted on a graph and displayed onscreen at a computer kiosk.

Science and health content: Balanced nutrition. Eat smart. Fuel your body with a balanced diet.
Visitors choose food to fuel their buddy’s expedition to the top of the mountain in this lively touch screen computer interactive. Along the way, visitors learn why a balanced diet is crucial to good health.

Science and health content: Body movement, stride, and speed. The more you move the more energy you use.
In this interactive, the visitor’s walking silhouette is captured on video and displayed in motion on projection screens, surrounded by moving silhouettes of other visitors. Stride length, speed, and an energy score are captured for each visitor, and they are challenged to move more and in different ways to get a higher energy score.

Science and health content: Pupils dilate and constrict to adjust and protect vision.
In this interactive experience, visitors can see their own pupil immediately and involuntarily react to changes in light.

Science and health content:  Everyone has a unique health story. Optimize your health.
Visitors record their own stories on video to share with family, friends, and other visitors or to view later on the Web. Visitors can also choose to view health optimization stories from the expedition buddies and other Expedition Health visitors.

At one of six individual sign-out stations, visitors insert their Peak Pass card in order to print out their own Peak Pass Personal Profile, which displays the results and data from today’s visit. After getting their printout—which includes a personal login number for accessing their visit data and extending their experience online—visitors recycle their used Peak Pass card in one of several built-in recycling containers.