Building a Cardboard Planetarium

Students at Powell County High School were lucky enough to have a $3,400 grant to build a cardboard planetarium funded by the Plum Creek Foundation. The blog entries will describe challenges, problem-solving techniques, what they've learned, and their overall accomplishments with the project. It should be an exciting ride!

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

FAQ about the planetarium

I get a lot of questions about the planetarium. Therefore in an effort to help answer those, I've made a post of FAQs over on my profess...

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Sound System A Go!

We have been fully funded for our sound system. The class is excited to test our the new speakers upon arrival. Thanks to all of our donors!

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

$30 to go...

Our class has been lucky enough to get numerous donations for our sound system from New York all the way to California! People and companies...

Monday, October 1, 2012

We are on donorschoose.org!

Donorschoose.org To all our faithful followers, we have started a project fund on donorschoose.org for a new sound system. We are looking...

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Fun in the dome

In May we setup the dome for a second time. Students were assigned a chapter in their astronomy books and asked to create a planetarium show...

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Planetarium Party and Tours

We enjoyed our working planetarium today. We watched several clips from our planetarium DVD collection, as well as one of the shows in the P...

Friday, November 4, 2011

We've been away enjoying our planetarium

Today, a group of students repositioned rivets in areas that needed tightening. The repositioning did wonders for the inside of the dome. A ...

View web version

Powered by Blogger.