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  Imaginarium Theater The Best Videos from Around the World Edited for a Gentler Audience Imaginarium Theater August 23, 2020 from SpaceCampUtah's Imaginarium on Vimeo .

From the Space Center's Historical Files. The Police Arrive at the Space Center with Guns Drawn! Bracken Funk Retires. Brent Anderson Retires, Brady Young Returns to the Voyager. Also, A New Podium for Central. The CMSC Planetarium Dome Takes Shape. Imaginarium Theater.

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From the Christa McAuliffe Space Center's Historical Files.  Comings and Goings. An Update Twelve Years Ago this Week. August 24, 2008 Bracken Funk Briefing a Voyager Crew Bracken Funk Retires      We have goodbyes and hellos for this post. Bracken Funk directed his last Overnight Camp on Friday. He ran his signature story ‘Silhouette’. His final scores were good enough to take first place in the post camp surveys. Bracken leaves on Wednesday for the MTC in Provo. A few weeks later he will leave Utah. Houston Texas is his final destination. Admiral William Schuler The Police Arrive at the Space Center with Guns Drawn!      The Overnight Camp was picture perfect. The scores were good (not great) and the kids were excellent in both behavior and performance. The Happy Bucket was given out but not used - a mark of another great camp. Equipment problems were fixed without delay. There was one small incident that stained the tranquility of an almost perfect...

Lakeview's Lions Gate Space Center Prepares to Open. Watch a Time Lapse of Central School and the Space Center's Demolition. The New CMSC Planetarium Takes Shape. From the CMSC Archives: The Staff and Volunteers Return to Work and A Tale of Two Captains. The Imaginarium Theater!

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Virus or Not, Lakeview Academy's Lion's Gate Center Gears Up for a New School Year. Parriss models the latest in Starfleet Virus Protocol.      Nathan and Parriss King are busy with opening day preparations at the Lions Gate Center at Lakeview Academy in Saratoga Springs, Utah.  Number one on their to do list is safety protocols.  How do you fly over 1000 students and teachers in regular rotations in the space edventure center's three starship simulators (Apollo, Artemis, and Leo).  It looks like they've settled on two options, Face Mask and Face Shield.  One thing I'm sure of, the microphone foam covers will be changed for every flight director.  It's a no brainer that those foam microphone covers used at every one of Utah's Space EdVenture Centers are the perfect carriers of every communicable disease currently in the offering.       Parriss reports that this year the simulators at the Lions Gate Center will limit occupa...

What a Great Space Center Leadership Camp: Ten Years Ago at the Space Center. See the Time Lapse Dismantling of the Galileo. Imaginarium Theater.

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Ben Murdoch Disturbing a perfectly good photo of me in lecture mode during a camp Leadership Camp 2010.   By Alex Anderson July 27, 2010. For those of you that only read the first line of every post, the Leadership Camp was amazing. Now that I have that aside… This years leadership camp was in planning for at least 8 months. I was brought onboard when Adam Hall, Ben Murdoch, Wyatt Lenhart, and Jon Parker told me about their plans for it: creating a brand new race (or, in this case, group of races) to battle against. It gave us something fresh to start with, instead of having to follow along with conventional races, like the Dominion from last year. We could use our creative muscles to imagine something new. They had a basic idea of each of the races, and a few of the rotations planned. As January rolled around, we finished fleshing out the details of these new antagonists, how they used to live in the Delta Quadrant until they got kicked out by the...

The Summer Camp Season Finished. I'm Heading Home. A Quiet Conversation at the Wonderland Station. Also, An Update with Photos on the New Space Center's Construction. And Another Also, This Week's Imaginarium Theater! Welcome Back Troubadour. We're In the Saddle Again.

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Waiting at the Wonderland Station. Our Vacation Starts. The Troubadour.  Ten Years Ago this Week.   August 1, 2010.   The last summer camp was done. The staff and volunteers were heading home for their well deserved and short summer vacation before the 2010-2011 school year started.  I wrote this as a thank you and to emphasize how our work at the CMSEC sparked waves of creativity and inspiration in our campers.   I stood on the platform and waited for the next train. It was quiet, no sound at all except for the humming of a young lady waiting on the station's one turquoise bench. She was dressed in white. Her yellow handbag and jacket rested beside her. “It’s not very busy tonight.” I tossed the statement in her direction to test the waters hoping for a bit of conversation to fill the quiet punctuated by the cold concrete. “Everything is either closed or closing for a few weeks," she said. I was relieved she took my invitation to...