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Central Elementary School
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.
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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 “It’s an open world in that the choices you make in the Wells, the school’s principal. Built in an open area adjacent ship actually affect it,” Porter said. “You’re not watching a to the old Central Elementary — which has since been torn movie, you’re involved and you have consequences for your down — the new school will include other cutting-edge tech- decisions.” nologies as well. As result, no simulated mission is identical to another.
Wells said the new school will be bigger than the former Crews may complete their goals, or they may blow up their building but have the same number of classrooms. The ship; it all depends on their decisions. Through the experiincrease in square footage is due to what are possibly the ence, participants learn about cooperation, critical thinking most anticipated features of the new school: the new Chris- and creativity. ta McAuliffe Space Center and what will be the second-larg- Hundreds of thousands of students have visited the est planetarium in Utah. space center on field trips since its opening. Many families
The space center has operated at Central Elementary and business groups have also rented the space center over since 1990. The center runs simulated space missions the years and gone on their own missions. where visitors go aboard a “spaceship” and are assigned The former space center was created in existing classduties to perform such as helm control, communications, se- rooms, meaning visitors had to walk through the school to curity or even serving as captain. The offstage space center reach the center. With the new school, the center will have staff members present a mission objective to the partici- its own entrance. pants, who must then work together to try and achieve their “Once you’ve stepped through the doors, everything is goal. going to look like the space center,” said Space Center
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Director James Porter. “You’re going to step into the future.” The new center will feature six simulators; the old center had four.
Building the center from scratch allowed designers to create many more ways staff members can enhance the mission experience, Porter said. For example, the simulators will now be able to communicate with each other, allowing multiple crews in multiple ships to work together during a single mission. Staff will also have control over the lighting levels, the sound, the computer touch screens — even the temperature in the room. Those flying too close to a sun will feel the heat.
Porter said going from the old space center to the new center will be like staff members had one hand tied behind their backs and then suddenly had that obstacle removed. “Now they have both hands and they’re going to be able to tell some amazing stories,” he said. A music soundtrack has been recorded specifically for the new space center and will be available for purchase on iTunes or at spacecenter.alpineschools.org.
Porter said the new planetarium is being created by Evans and Sutherland, one of the leading producers of planetariums. The facility will offer shows both as part of student field trips and in the evenings and on weekends for the public.
Unlike the traditional planetarium show where the audience sits and watches, however, the space center plans to offer interactive shows where visitors will be more engaged in learning about the universe. Scheduling for field trips and private group visits to the center will begin in August, Porter said. Those interested should register through the website, spacecenter.alpineschools.org, or follow the center on Facebook at Facebook. com.asdspacecenter for notifications.
Central Elementary is currently collecting artifacts and stories related to the school’s history for display in the new school. If people are interested in donating or lending items, contact Wells at ryanwells@alpinedistrict.org.
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