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Description of the Planetary Atmospheres Demo and its Uses page 6

TRAINING THE PRESENTERS
The best way for new presenters to learn the demo is to begin doing it with a more experienced presenter. Here's what is recommended for first timers:

First, join in as a participant once or twice.  Then observe the interaction of presenters and participants a few times.  Next share in doing the presentation; each time taking on a larger portion yourself.  Your mentor can step in at any point if it looks like you could use help.

In a few hours you should be ready to go solo.  In a couple 2-4 hour shifts, you can be really good at it.  Between shifts, you can rehearse the story line in your mind a bit -- like learning your part in a play. More like improvisational theater.  But, mostly, it's a matter of just doing it several times.

At popular science centers, it is common to do the demo with 100 people in 4 hours.  In a short time, you can learn a lot about involving people in the process of discovery.  As diverse as we can be, young and old, there is something very human that draws us to fun science.