Superintendent Dr. Freddie Williamson

Director Ken Brandt

Address: 100 Hargrave St. Lumberton, NC 28358

Phone: (910)671-6000, x3382

Contact email: kenneth.brandt@robeson.k12.nc.us

Please take the planetarium survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T6LGB7F

Upcoming Public Events:

On Saturday, November 9th, at Noon, 1330, and 1500, the planetarium program will honor our veterans for Armistice Day (AKA Veteran's day), showing the program Back to the Moon for Good, narrated by Tim Allen. Admission is free. Each Veteran or active duty service member in attendance will receive a lithograph, suitable for framing, of the first woman to go to the Moon, Christina Koch.

Planetarium program cancelled for November.

Fine-tuning visits to the planetarium: insider hints for teachers-Have students down student questions on 3x5 cards, or something like that in dark ink, legibly. This way, I can answer student questions anonymously for those who are shy. I've done the research: there are 5x more unique interactions (more students asking questions), and deeper level questioning is 11x greater in those groups that have pre-written questions, vs. those who don't.

Also, there is greater diversity in the questioners-more females ask questions than those groups who haven't pre-written questions.

astronaut Bill McArthur, center, with Ken Brandt, along with Marvin, NASA's full scale Mars rover model.

Track Ingenuity and Perseverance on Mars:

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/27365/ingenuity-and-perseverance-make-tracks/

Please note that our schedule is subject to change, as current events in space science dictate.

For school groups: 35 students and 3 adults can be comfortably seated indoors.

• Weather: here is a link for our own clear sky clock. See whether it'll be clear or cloudy here in SE NC.