Ghana Science Project

MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD
Minnesota State University Moorhead, 1104 7th Ave South, Moorhead, MN 56563 USA www.mnstate.edu/

MINNESOTA PLANETARIUM SOCIETY
AND SPACE DISCOVERY CENTER
81 South Ninth Street, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55402
www.mplanetarium.org/

LOUISIANA ART AND SCIENCE MUSEUM
100 South River Road in downtown Baton Rouge
From art exhibitions and workshops to hands-on science exhibits and treasures from ancient Egypt, LASM has something to inspire everyone. Learn more about the museum on this site and plan a visit soon.
www.lasm.org

THE IRENE PENNINGTON PLANETARIUM IN BATON ROUGE, LA
You will be mesmerized by Baton Rouge’s star attraction—The Irene W. Pennington Planetarium! The giant 60-foot dome theater is one of the most sophisticated multimedia presentation theaters in the country—presenting planetarium programs, large-format films and high-resolution digital video projections in the ExxonMobil Space Theater.

In the ExxonMobil Space Theater, be dazzled by our state-of-the-art, 3-dimentional immersive capability that takes you on a journey through the cosmos in stunning detail. Learn about the seasonal night sky and current celestial events, explore our solar system and travel to the stars and beyond to see the universe as never before. We’re also home to Baton Rouge’s only 70 mm, 8-perf projection system featuring larger-than-life films that put you in the center of the action and by a 5.1, 15,000 watt digital surround sound.

The planetarium also offers 5,000 square feet of out-of-this-world exhibits, where you can weigh yourself on the moon, meet Galileo, and even touch a falling star—a meteorite a billion years older than any earth rock.
Visit LASM’s newest star, the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium today—and come back often. Your entire family will be dazzled by the wonders of the solar system and the universe beyond.
www.lasm.org/stage/html/mn_planetarium.html

AUDIOVISUAL IMAGINEERING
Audio Visual Imagineering Inc.8440 Tradeport Dr. Suite 109Orlando, FL 32827
Managing Director, Joanne Young
Office Manager, Suzan Hatfield
Technical & Service Director, Mark Zellers
www.mediaglobeplanetarium.com

ELUMENATI www.elumenati.com A design and engineering firm specialising in the creation and deployment of immersive environments. Omnifocus projection systems require no edge blending, no alignment, and are in focus everywhere. A single projector can fill entire spaces - domes, arbitrary room shapes, globes, and more, with dynamic imagery. "With combined decades of experience in the fields of optical engineering, A/V post-production, automation and control, real-time video processing, systems integration and more, we apply our combined experience to help clients develop compelling experiences."

SCISS www.scalingtheuniverse.com
Smart Content for Interactive Systems. SCISS is a supplier of visualization tools, whose main business is in the Uniview product family. Uniview is a computer graphics platform bringing information databases to life in a 3D environment much like an immersive computer game. SCISS's mission is to help planetariums, museums and visualization facilities entertain and educate audiences through visualization, and to create tools that help accomplish these goals. www.scalingtheuniverse.com/uniview.php

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY is one of the world's pre-eminent scientific, educational and cultural institutions. "The Museum's Department of Astrophysics conducts an ambitious research program, providing scientific expertise to support the education and outreach activities of the Rose Center for Earth and Space and conveying the excitement of modern astronomy to the public. Research includes observational, theoretical and computational astrophysics and uses ground- and space-based telescopes, super-computers and visualization tools. The Digital Universe was developed by the American Museum of Natural History in collaboration with the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA). The Digital Universe is the world's most extensive and accurate 3D atlas of the universe. This interactive database combines the latest astronomical data provided by scientists from around the globe. In this vast atlas you get a view of the observable universe conveying its size and structure". Portions can be seen at www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe

We are grateful for the various parts played by these organisations.