MY PHONE OPERATION GAME

In this game, visitors can enjoy a completely different and educational

version of the traditional Operation Game. In the Giant Phone Operation

Game, the aim is, to remove the elements inside the holes, without

touching the sides. If someone accidentally touches the sides, the buzzer

will ring and they lose the game. There are different sized holes with

different difficulty levels.

Our mobile phones consist of many Rare Earth Metals. There are 17 socalled

Rare Earth Metals. 15 of them are Lanthanoids, whereas 2 of them

belong to the group of Transition Metals.

The most common used Rare

Earth Metals for mobile phones are: Cerium, Lanthanum, Praseodymium,

Europium, Yttrium, Dysprosium, Gadolinium, Neodymium and Terbium.

On each of the elements, there will be a short description of the element

and what part of the phone in particular it is used for. Only visitors who

are able to remove elements from the holes, will be able to read their

description. This game is yet another reminder, on how we leave our

carbon footprint on this planet, by using Rare Earth Elements for most of

our electronic devices. It also shows us, how many of those elements are

in our cell phones and the importance of recycling them properly, as those

Rare Earth Elements can take hundreds of years to recycle on their own.

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Sustainability and leaving our Carbon footprint on this planet are the main

issues, I personally would like to represent with my science museum

project.