KUDOS! Congrats to the three newest SO Guide Captains! Joining veteran Guide Captain Art Teter on the Sat PM shift are newly minted leaders James Bachman (l) and Sebastian Iuga (r)! Yay! By the way James also volunteers on the Sat AM team!

Liz Moore also joins the ranks of Guide

Captain Sun PMs, alongside Guide Captains Jim Nelson, Grant Matheny and Abe Shapiro.

Each of them has been selected to help fellow Guide Captains for their knowledge, leadership and commit-ment to their teams and guests!

Training for New MGGs on March 22, 2017

The next Space Odys-sey Training for New Museum Galaxy Guides will be held Wed., March 22, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., in SO. Steve Lee, Samantha Sands and Naomi Pequette will present.

Not a new volunteer but interested in one of the topics? Or perhaps you’d like another chance to go inside the diorama? You are welcome to come to this training as well! Please RSVP to Ana, if you haven’t already done so.

MARCH 2017 VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3

SPACE ODYSSEY VOLUNTEER UPDATE

POINTS OF INTEREST:

Training for New MGGs March 22

Join Us for SO Upgrade Up-date Q&A Session

TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets on SOS

New Live Planetarium Show: Space Tours Live!

Experiment Bar Tidying Up

Updated Manuals

Message from Steve Lee

March: Women’s History Month

INSIDE THIS ISSUE :

KUDOS, NEW MGG TRAINING

1

STEVE LEE, UP-

DATED MANUALS 2,4

CUBELETS, RE-

MINDER: EXPERI-

MENT BAR

2

NEW SHOW, IN-

QUIRING MINDS, THIS & THAT

3

NEW EXOPLANETS ON SOS

4

JOIN US: SO UP-

GRADE UPDATE/Q&A SESSION

5

D ID YOU KNOW, FROM ANA’S CUBIE

6

This is an interesting turn of events! Take a look at this article:

“Canadian Firm Buying Colorado’s DigitalGlode for $2.4 Billion”.

DigitalGlobe is the com-pany operating the WorldView “commercial Earth-observing space-craft,” among others

(headquartered in West-minster, CO).

MDA is the Canadian aerospace firm respon-sible for the robotic arms on the Shuttle (Canadarm 1) and the ISS (Canadarm 2). This might give us some interesting partnering

possibilities for future programs.

stay screwed in. Thank you for your pa-tience, Galaxy Guides! In the mean time, please keep checking out the white board in Room 2003 for updates.

Samantha is actively working with Modular Robotics to get the rota-tor action cubelet re-paired. She’s also working on getting more screws to replace the ones that have come loose and a way to make sure they

STEVE LEE SAYS...

CUBELETS MAINTENANCE UPDATE

Updated SO Manuals Now on MGG Portal!

as well as reflect current science and best prac-tices. This, of course has been long process since many of the manuals hadn’t been updated since before Space Odyssey was opened in 2003!

Thanks to the efforts of several

members of the Educa-tor/Performer (floor staff) team, the Space Science Newsroom, and Naomi, we’re happy to announce that 11 more updated manuals are now available on the Galaxy Guide Portal for you! Cont’ on pg.4.

As many of you know, Samantha and Naomi have been working on updating all the manuals for Space Odyssey for the past couple of years. We want to make sure that all of them have current pictures, include the correct set-up and take-down procedures,

Please Tidy Up Experiment Bar at

End of Shift!

Folks, please tidy up at the end of your respective shifts at the Experiment Bar. We’ve heard from some volunteers that the bar is sometimes messy and the Mars simulated soil is often left out. It’s helpful to your fellow Galaxy Guides who facilitate at the shift following yours to find that all goodies are organized, neat and have been put away. Gracias!

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Cubelets. Photo Credit: Modular Robotics

Photo Credit: Patrick H. Corkery/United Launch Alli-ance

together you determine your path and navigate a three-dimensional atlas of the known universe.

You will return home with a new appreciation for the immensity, complexity, and beauty of our solar system and beyond.

Space Tours Live! is a brand new, paid Panetari-um show that’s featured daily at 2:45 p.m. MGGs are welcome to come watch the show for free

Don’t See the Schedule on the Galaxy Stage Screen or it Needs Fixing?

No problem. Simply find the floor staff and kindly ask them to correct the schedule. Can’t find them?

Then call Museum Programs Logistics at x6494 and report it. Thanks!

Check Out New Planetarium Show, Space Tours Live!

INQUIRING MINDS

Into Mega Movies

Earth-Size Planets: The Newest, Weirdest Generation

Distant Galaxies Lack Dark Matter, Study Suggests

A Slowdown at the Sun’s Surface Ex-plained

Astronomers Detect Oldest Known Star-

dust in Distant Gal-axy

Scientists Make the Case to Restore Pluto’s Planet Status

Study Magnetic Ex-plosions with NASA Missions

It’s More than Just Climate Change

The Ugly Truth of Chil-dren’s Books (Facebook)

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (Non-Facebook)

Sentinel Satellite Launched to Picture Planet Earth

How to Photograph a Solar Eclipse

Eclipse to be Turned

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THIS & THAT

anytime there’s space available. Simply show your badge to the planetarium ushers.

Found an Issue on the Floor? Please Jot Down on White Board! Folks, we can’t say it enough! If you find an issue that needs fix-ing, please jot it down on the white board in Room 2003. A brief description and a date will do the trick. Likewise, please re-member to check that white board at the start of your shift so you know the status of fixes. Merci!

Blast off from your Plane-tarium seat into the depths of space, as you learn about your place in the cosmos. A live host will accompany you on your journey as

Here’s a list of the updated manuals with links to their homes on the Galaxy Guide Portal:

Barany Chair

Fuel Cell Demonstra-tion: Set-Up and Take Down

Gravity Well Demo

Jumbo Big Dipper

Legend of the Milky Way Storytime

Make Your Own Sundial

Meteorites Cart: Manual and Object List

Vacuum Chamber Demo

Will a Bowling Bowl Sink or Float

Take a little time to peek at these updated re-sources and let us know what you think!

Kudos to all the folks who worked diligently on these updates to help ensure your MGG facili-tating experiences are even more scientifically current!

Updated SO Manuals Now on MGG Portal, Cont’

New TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets on Science on a Sphere

Planets.” Kim has also created slides for each of these new datasets that appear on the screens behind Science on a Sphere. Thank you, Kim! If you’d like to find out more about this exciting

discovery of seven Earth-sized planets that are orbiting a star just 40 light years away, check out this article and images from NASA: “Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planets.”

Thanks to Kim Evans in the Space Science Newsroom, we now have artist conceptions of the seven rocky plan-ets in the TRAPPIST-1 system on the Science on a Sphere. The datasets are locat-ed in a playlist called “TRAPPIST-1

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TRAPPIST 1-D. Photo Credit: NASA

in April, as we prepare to kick off the concept development of the project.

We’ll share what we’ve learned so far, and what the process will look like for the rest of the year, including when we will be getting input from you on ide-as!

To help us make the Update as valuable to

Join Us for a Space Odyssey Upgrade Update/Q&A Session!

WHICH Q&A SESSION WILL YOU ATTEND?

Q/A presentation:

Option 1: Tue., 4/18, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., Ricketson Audito-rium Option 2: Sat., 4/22, 9:00 to 10:30 a.m., VIP (located in T-Rex)

Please RSVP on Sign-Up Sheets in the Volunteer Lounge no later than April 12. Simply pick one of the two dates to attend the live

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you as possible, please drop off the question(s) you’d like to have an-swered at the Update session in the box in the Volunteer Lounge between now and April 7, 2017.

We’ll use your ques-tions to help shape our

agenda for the Update.

(Cont’ below…)

We’ve got SO MUCH information to share with you, we can’t fit it in this paragraph!

Please join us for one of two “live” Space Od-yssey Upgrade Up-date/Q&A sessions

By the way, we plan on filming the presentation and making it available on the MGG Volunteer Portal!

Space Odyssey Upgrade Update contributions are provided by Jodi Schoemer, Director of Exhibits & Digital Media. Gracias, Jodi!

Message from Ana’s Cubie

Salutations Space Odyssey and Prehistoric Journey facilitators!

A hearty thanks for your ingenious ways of sparking curiosity in guests

and team mates.

In addition, I’d like to send a huge shout out to each of you for graciously

facilitating space and earth sciences to little and adult guests exploring

our exhibits on regular days, free days and the extra busy school spring

break season; showing the ropes to newbie volunteers, Galaxy Guides

and Team Leaders in your respective areas; answering questions of ex-

cited guests who are flocking to the highly successful Vikings temporary

exhibit; AND for still signing up and helping the Museum with Girls and

Science (over 9,000 guests), Science Lounges and New Member Nights!

Please don’t hesitate to send me an email or leave a note at my desk, if

we haven’t connected in a bit and you need something from me. As most

of you have noticed, my schedule is also included in the initial automated

response you receive when you email me. And, of course, if you’re in the

Museum, you can also find my schedule displayed outside of my cubie.

I remain thankful for your patience, as I continue to juggle a rotating

schedule and a busy season of onboarding new volunteers. See you fine

folks at briefings, exhibit halls and my cubie!

Grateful for you…

Ana

The next two “60 Minutes in Space” programs will take place on Wed., March 29, at 7 p.m. in the Gates

Planetarium.

Don’t miss out on this intri-guing (and free!) series that brings ’behind the stories’ in space science with awe-inspiring images, animation and, of course, solid scien-tific content.

DID YOU KNOW?

March is Women’s History

Month!

In honor of March being Women’s His-tory Month, Frances Kruger, Senior Exhibit Developer and Prehistoric Journey Core Team Project Manager, and Dr. Paula Cushing, Senior Cura-tor, Invertebrate Zoology, put together a list of meaningful dates that highlight issues that women protested for and gained the rights to do. In addition, in honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, Dr. Cush-ing complied a fun “Test Your Knowledge” list of pioneering women and their spectacular accomplishments based on related groupings. Kudos to Frances and Paula for these efforts.

If you’d like a copy of these listings, email Ana.

Dream Big 3-D: Engineering

Our World is at IMAX.

Take a tour through engineer-ing wonders, from the small to the big, from the old to the new. Learn first-hand how innova-tion is reached through human ingenuity. Celebrating those who build, invent and shape our world while inspiring the young.

Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity is playing in the

Gates Planetarium

Slip into a world of wormholes. See the intensity in the death of a star and subsequent birth of a black hole in this Museum-produced show. Check out the math equations and latest science and Ein-stein’s theories as you learn about this phenomenon.