Upgrade to facility, shift to multi-purpose theater offered
By Dance Aoki
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TÃA, Guam (Pacific Daily News, Feb. 5, 2013) – Planetarium coordinator Pam Eastlick has a plan that may save the University of Guam (UOG) planetarium.
Instead of closing the planetarium to make way for new science lecture hall as the university proposed, Eastlick suggested upgrading the planetarium with state of the art technology that would enable the university to use the facility for a variety of classes in addition to continuing as a planetarium.
The new technology, Eastlick said, would cost about $200,000.
The upgraded system from Spitz Planetariums would be able to project videos, stills, constellations, and allow audience members to move through space, but it could also be used by any professor as an instructional tool to help them teach their classes, she said.
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