Thanks to all the school and community groups who booked shows during our first year in our newly renovated planetarium. We truly enjoyed seeing every one of your smiling faces and answering your awesome, and often surprising, questions. We are now sliding inevitibly toward the end of classes and exam week, and our schedule for the remainder of the academic year is full. Therefore we have closed our online request form for the summer. We’ll open it back up in mid-August. If you are a teacher or group leader, here are few things to keep in mind when thinking about shows for the 2017-18 academic year:
- Our shows are all free!
- Reserve as early as you can; spring tends to fill up quickly, and our “season” ends in early May. With a returning experienced student presenter, we can start doing shows in September this year.
- Our window for doing shows during weekday school hours will once again be Thursdays. Evenings and weekends are somewhat more flexible, depending on other demands on the space.
- The capacity of the theater is 40 in seats or ~80 on the floor.
- Outreach is an important mission of Gettysburg College’s planetarium, but it is not the primary one. Please be aware that you’re entering a working college environment, probably with classes in session in the building, and also that none of the staff works full-time on the planetarium
- It’s AMAZING!
