Just Another Day

Overall, today was pretty chill. After setting up the dominoes around the Foucault pendulum, I sat in on a school group show (on the solar system) which happened to include a couple of observers from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. (CMSD has a program, called Inspire, where every second grader in the district visits the museum; the planetarium has an opportunity to become part of that program – which would boost attendance and provide some funding.) Afterwards, I did some more work on my final presentation, sketching out a storyboard and looking up photographs from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). The project is coming along rather nicely, although I’ll have to do some work over the weekend to make sure that I have enough time to learn how to program the presentation into the planetarium before the project is over. Now that I have a definite outline down, though, and a definite topic, work should go much smoother. Anyway, to conclude the day, my fellow volunteers and I returned to the plants in the lobby, wiping them down with wet rags to remove a gray film that collects on the leaves.