New School Construction Historic Central Elementary entering the future Pleasant Grove’s fourth school building to be named Central Elementary School is nearly complete, and while the name recalls a rich history, the new building is encouraging students and the community to look to the future. The new Central Elementary, located at 95 N. 400 East, will open this fall as Alpine School District’s first school with solar panels on the roof and geothermal heating, said Ryan Wells, the school’s principal. Built in an open area adjacent to the old Central Elementary — which has since been torn down — the new school will include other cutting-edge technologies as well. Wells said the new school will be bigger than the former building but have the same number of classrooms. The increase in square footage is due to what are possibly the most anticipated features of the new school: the new Christa McAuliffe Space Center and what will be the second-largest planetarium in Utah. The space center has operated at Central Elementary since 1990. The center runs simulated space missions where visitors go aboard a “spaceship” and are assigned duties to perform such as helm control, communications, security or even serving as captain. The offstage space center staff members present a mission objective to the participants, who must then work together to try and achieve their goal.
“It’s an open world in that the choices you make in the ship actually affect it,” Porter said. “You’re not watching a movie, you’re involved and you have consequences for your decisions.” As result, no simulated mission is identical to another. Crews may complete their goals, or they may blow up their ship; it all depends on their decisions. Through the experience, participants learn about cooperation, critical thinking and creativity. Hundreds of thousands of students have visited the space center on field trips since its opening. Many families and business groups have also rented the space center over the years and gone on their own missions. The former space center was created in existing classrooms, meaning visitors had to walk through the school to reach the center. With the new school, the center will have its own entrance. “Once you’ve stepped through the doors, everything is going to look like the space center,” said Space Center
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