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Employee Daycare Center
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The Employee Daycare Center is a small location located in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, between the Turret Manufacturing and the Neurotoxin Generator.
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[edit] Overview
Briefly visited in Chapter 5: The Escape. Little information is given about it in Portal 2. There are many small desks with office chairs facing a projection screen with the current Aperture Science logo, as well as filing cabinets at the back of the room.
[edit] "Bring your Daughter to Work Day" potato experiments
In the next area, Chell comes across the remains of a "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day" science fair during which several experiments were showcased by employees' daughters (including herself), mostly on potato batteries. Most girl names may be nods to daughters of Valve employees, but it has to be confirmed. The names are listed here as seen in-game.
[edit] Jessica
Jessica experimented on providing power to a small calculator with three potatoes.
[edit] Beth
Beth experimented on providing power to a light bulb with one potato that went flat.
[edit] Alix
Alix experimented on providing power to a clock radio with one potato. Her name may be a reference to Alyx Vance.
[edit] Laura
Laura compared power provided by a potato and a lemon.
[edit] Heather
Heather is the only one who did not make a potato battery but a "baking soda volcano" instead, with baking soda and vinegar (an actual experiment), to see if a baking soda volcano is as cool as a real one (she concludes it is not, the bright side being it cannot burn people). Wheatley comments: "Baking Soda Volcano. Well, at least it's not a potato battery, I'll give it that. Still not terrifically original, though. Not exactly primary research, even within the child sciences. I'm guessing this wasn't one of the scientist's children. I don't want to be snobby, but let's be honest: It's got manual laborer written all over it. I'm not saying they're not as good as the professionals. They're just a lot dumber."
[edit] Katharine
Katharine experimented on providing power to some sort of hard disk drive with one potato. The next experiment is Chell's, whose potato grew up into the ceiling.
[edit] Trivia
The desks and chairs used in the meeting room are the same that are used in Test Shaft 09 except the ones in Test Shaft 09 have typewriters on them.
[edit] Gallery
The meeting room.
BYDTWD banner (texture).
BYDTWD banner (model).
Jessica's experiment's panel.
Jessica's potatoes.
Beth's experiment's panel.
Beth's potato.
Alix's experiment's panel.
Alix's potato.
Laura's experiment's panel.
Laura's potatoes.
Heather's experiment's panel.
Heather's volcano.
Katharine's experiment's panel.
Katharine's potato.
Chell's experiment's panel, which reuses a picture of Laura's experiment.
Partial view of Chell's overgrown potato.
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[edit] List of appearances
- Portal 2 (First appearance)
| Preceded by Turret Manufacturing |
Portal 2 journey | Succeeded by Neurotoxin Generator |
