Comments on: In Defense of Overhead Projectors? http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/10/in-defense-of-overhead-projectors.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:06:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Dave http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/10/in-defense-of-overhead-projectors.html/comment-page-1#comment-13670 Dave Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:38:25 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=3611#comment-13670 Planetarium theaters are vital to science education. I grew up in the Chicago area and took plenty of field trips to the Museum Campus downtown, including to the Adler Planetarium, where I had a chance to see the stars that city light pollution obscures. If not for the planetarium, I wonder whether I would have minored in astronomy in college. I live in New York now, and when the Hayden Planetarium here got a new theater, I bought a membership to the museum and have purchased many-a-ticket to the shows and lectures that use the projector. If $3 million is the cost of a projector as good as the one at Hayden, then I would guess it pays for itself in memberships, ticket sales, and, most importantly, the research of future scientists. Planetarium theaters are vital to science education. I grew up in the Chicago area and took plenty of field trips to the Museum Campus downtown, including to the Adler Planetarium, where I had a chance to see the stars that city light pollution obscures. If not for the planetarium, I wonder whether I would have minored in astronomy in college.

I live in New York now, and when the Hayden Planetarium here got a new theater, I bought a membership to the museum and have purchased many-a-ticket to the shows and lectures that use the projector. If $3 million is the cost of a projector as good as the one at Hayden, then I would guess it pays for itself in memberships, ticket sales, and, most importantly, the research of future scientists.

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