Posts tagged #inspiration:
Dan Tell, Senior Planetarium Systems Support Engineer at Morrison Planetarium | 2018-01-25
Change can be scary. I think it can be especially scary to planetarians, in our small, insular industry, with a lot of traditions and loud voices. This isn’t to say there isn’t a lot of amazing experimentation and innovation, but, when we found it was time to update Morrison Planetarium’s school shows, those of us on the planetarium team revising them felt nervous. We were going down a route that felt like a total mix-up of all the school shows we’d done before, and we weren’t sure it was going to work.
Mark SubbaRao, Director of the Space Visualization Laboratory at the Adler Planetarium | 2017-12-20
The Adler Planetarium's Kavli Lectures had its fourth domecast event in November, adressing the question "Are we alone in the Universe?". This lecture was led by Lisa Kaltenegger, Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University. In this blogpost, Dr. Mark Subbarao talks about the vision behind the Kavli Lecture Series and the importance of globally connecting the planetarium community.
Sally Brummel, Planetarium Program Manager at Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota | 2016-10-18
The University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History’s ExploraDome debuted 10 years ago and has since inspired over 180,000 students and other learners throughout Minnesota. Sally Brummel has been with the ExploraDome since the beginning and in this blog post shares with us her rewarding experience of presenting in the intimate setting of a portable dome.