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Planetarium - In My Backyard
In My Backyard
What can you see from your backyard? Join acclaimed family entertainer Fred Penner as he helps answer this question in an interactive program with three original songs (from his ninth album "What a Day"). This show begins with Fred greeting the audience and introducing his helper, Arnie the Arrow. Then it's off to explore things large and small in Fred's backyard -- from the colors of the rainbow to counting ladybugs on a rose. After looking at the reasons for the seasons, the stars begin to appear as Fred sings "We're Going to Shine." Arnie points out the Big Dipper -- but wait -- it's really a bear we're looking at!
Following a story about Callisto and Arcus, we snap our fingers to the beat of the planet poem, see some meteors whiz by, and sing along to "The Moon Song." The show ends with the song "In My Backyard" and Fred's goodbye to the audience. Children will enjoy story telling, poetry, and song as they learn about the seasons, constellations, planets, meteors and the Moon.
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADPRBZ.
Friday, June 6, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Grossology & You
Show Descriptions:
https://www.usca.edu/rpsec/departments/planetarium/show-descriptions/.
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADPRCB.
Friday, June 6, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Grossology & You
Grossology and You,
Take a trip around all the gross cracks and crevices of the human body. Join Noreen Neuron, host of the "Personal Universe" game show, as she leads us through a competition to decide which body system is the best and brightest. Will it be Scabby ( the immune system), Boogie (the respiratory system) or Flatus (the digestive system)?
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADSNML.
Saturday, June 7, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Cosmic Colors
Cosmic Colors
Cosmic Colors will take you on a wondrous journey across the electromagnetic spectrum. Discover the many reasons for color—like why the sky is blue and why Mars is red. Take a tour within a plant leaf and journey inside the human eye. Investigate x-rays at your doctor's office and at a monstrous black hole. Get ready for an amazing adventure under a rainbow of cosmic light!
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADSNMQ.
Saturday, June 7, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Digistar Special Effects
Digistar Special Effects Extravaganza
Join us for a fun-filled experience of sight and sound as we show off the special effects capabilities of Digistar. From a picture gallery of locations on the USCA Campus to fast-paced movements through a variety of shapes and objects, you will have great fun with our extravaganza. We will treat you to some interesting information about our night sky as well.
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADSNMS.
Saturday, June 7, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Grossology & You
Grossology and You,
Take a trip around all the gross cracks and crevices of the human body. Join Noreen Neuron, host of the "Personal Universe" game show, as she leads us through a competition to decide which body system is the best and brightest. Will it be Scabby ( the immune system), Boogie (the respiratory system) or Flatus (the digestive system)?
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADSNML.
Saturday, June 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Cosmic Colors
Cosmic Colors
Cosmic Colors will take you on a wondrous journey across the electromagnetic spectrum. Discover the many reasons for color—like why the sky is blue and why Mars is red. Take a tour within a plant leaf and journey inside the human eye. Investigate x-rays at your doctor's office and at a monstrous black hole. Get ready for an amazing adventure under a rainbow of cosmic light!
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADSNMQ.
Saturday, June 14, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Digistar Special Effects
Digistar Special Effects Extravaganza
Join us for a fun-filled experience of sight and sound as we show off the special effects capabilities of Digistar. From a picture gallery of locations on the USCA Campus to fast-paced movements through a variety of shapes and objects, you will have great fun with our extravaganza. We will treat you to some interesting information about our night sky as well.
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADSNMS.
Saturday, June 14, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - One World, One Sky
Big Bird's Adventure: One World, One Sky
Follow Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu, from the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street. Together, they take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street to the moon, where they discover how different it is from Earth.
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADPRCC.
Friday, June 20, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Backyard Wilderness
Backyard Wilderness,
Backyard Wilderness will surprise and entertain viewers with the unexpected wonders of nature that are right under our noses - in our own backyards.
Spanning a seasonal year around a suburban home, the film displays a stunning array of unique wildlife images and behavior - all captured by cameras mounted inside dens and nests, and moving along the forest floor and pond bottom, to reveal its inhabitants in rare and breathtaking intimacy.
We follow Katie, a young girl, and her modern family living next to the woods who are blind to the real-life spectacle around them, absorbed by an array of electronic devices in their busy lives. Katie gradually discovers the intricate secrets that nature has hidden so close to her front door, and we experience the joy she finds in her interactions with this new world. The film reminds us that Wi-Fi is not the only connection that matters and that sometimes in ordinary places, you can uncover extraordinary things that can transform you forever…
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2025-AFAZFZ.
Friday, June 20, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Grossology & You
Grossology and You,
Take a trip around all the gross cracks and crevices of the human body. Join Noreen Neuron, host of the "Personal Universe" game show, as she leads us through a competition to decide which body system is the best and brightest. Will it be Scabby ( the immune system), Boogie (the respiratory system) or Flatus (the digestive system)?
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADSNML.
Saturday, June 21, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Cosmic Colors
Cosmic Colors
Cosmic Colors will take you on a wondrous journey across the electromagnetic spectrum. Discover the many reasons for color—like why the sky is blue and why Mars is red. Take a tour within a plant leaf and journey inside the human eye. Investigate x-rays at your doctor's office and at a monstrous black hole. Get ready for an amazing adventure under a rainbow of cosmic light!
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADSNMQ.
Saturday, June 21, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Digistar Special Effects
Digistar Special Effects Extravaganza
Join us for a fun-filled experience of sight and sound as we show off the special effects capabilities of Digistar. From a picture gallery of locations on the USCA Campus to fast-paced movements through a variety of shapes and objects, you will have great fun with our extravaganza. We will treat you to some interesting information about our night sky as well.
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADSNMS.
Saturday, June 21, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Magic Treehouse
Magic Tree House: Space Mission
Travel with brother-sister duo, Jack and Annie, in their Magic Tree House as they discover a note that asks them to answer six questions about space. With the help of an astronomer, the Internet, an astronaut, books and the writer of the mysterious note, Jack and Annie go on a wondrous journey of adventure and learning. This beautifully produced show is based on the beloved Magic Tree House book series.
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADPRCH.
Friday, June 27, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Defying Gravity
Defying Gravity
Join host Apollo Aurora and her science reporters as they explore the science behind rocket power, gravity on other planets, and even monstrous black holes! Robot experts Apple 1-6-8-6 and EGR-1 will also lend a few circuits to explain the force that keeps us humans all grounded. Well, some of the time!
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADPRCJ.
Friday, June 27, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Grossology & You
Grossology and You,
Take a trip around all the gross cracks and crevices of the human body. Join Noreen Neuron, host of the "Personal Universe" game show, as she leads us through a competition to decide which body system is the best and brightest. Will it be Scabby ( the immune system), Boogie (the respiratory system) or Flatus (the digestive system)?
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADSNML.
Saturday, June 28, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Cosmic Colors
Cosmic Colors
Cosmic Colors will take you on a wondrous journey across the electromagnetic spectrum. Discover the many reasons for color—like why the sky is blue and why Mars is red. Take a tour within a plant leaf and journey inside the human eye. Investigate x-rays at your doctor's office and at a monstrous black hole. Get ready for an amazing adventure under a rainbow of cosmic light!
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADSNMQ.
Saturday, June 28, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Digistar Special Effects
Digistar Special Effects Extravaganza
Join us for a fun-filled experience of sight and sound as we show off the special effects capabilities of Digistar. From a picture gallery of locations on the USCA Campus to fast-paced movements through a variety of shapes and objects, you will have great fun with our extravaganza. We will treat you to some interesting information about our night sky as well.
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADSNMS.
Saturday, June 28, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - In My Backyard
In My Backyard
What can you see from your backyard? Join acclaimed family entertainer Fred Penner as he helps answer this question in an interactive program with three original songs (from his ninth album "What a Day"). This show begins with Fred greeting the audience and introducing his helper, Arnie the Arrow. Then it's off to explore things large and small in Fred's backyard -- from the colors of the rainbow to counting ladybugs on a rose. After looking at the reasons for the seasons, the stars begin to appear as Fred sings "We're Going to Shine." Arnie points out the Big Dipper -- but wait -- it's really a bear we're looking at!
Following a story about Callisto and Arcus, we snap our fingers to the beat of the planet poem, see some meteors whiz by, and sing along to "The Moon Song." The show ends with the song "In My Backyard" and Fred's goodbye to the audience. Children will enjoy story telling, poetry, and song as they learn about the seasons, constellations, planets, meteors and the Moon.
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADPRBZ.
Friday, July 11, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Grossology & You
Show Descriptions:
https://www.usca.edu/rpsec/departments/planetarium/show-descriptions/.
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADPRCB.
Friday, July 11, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - One World, One Sky
Big Bird's Adventure: One World, One Sky
Follow Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu, from the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street. Together, they take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street to the moon, where they discover how different it is from Earth.
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADPRCC.
Friday, July 18, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Backyard Wilderness
Backyard Wilderness,
Backyard Wilderness will surprise and entertain viewers with the unexpected wonders of nature that are right under our noses - in our own backyards.
Spanning a seasonal year around a suburban home, the film displays a stunning array of unique wildlife images and behavior - all captured by cameras mounted inside dens and nests, and moving along the forest floor and pond bottom, to reveal its inhabitants in rare and breathtaking intimacy.
We follow Katie, a young girl, and her modern family living next to the woods who are blind to the real-life spectacle around them, absorbed by an array of electronic devices in their busy lives. Katie gradually discovers the intricate secrets that nature has hidden so close to her front door, and we experience the joy she finds in her interactions with this new world. The film reminds us that Wi-Fi is not the only connection that matters and that sometimes in ordinary places, you can uncover extraordinary things that can transform you forever…
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2025-AFAZFZ.
Friday, July 18, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Magic Treehouse
Magic Tree House: Space Mission
Travel with brother-sister duo, Jack and Annie, in their Magic Tree House as they discover a note that asks them to answer six questions about space. With the help of an astronomer, the Internet, an astronaut, books and the writer of the mysterious note, Jack and Annie go on a wondrous journey of adventure and learning. This beautifully produced show is based on the beloved Magic Tree House book series.
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADPRCH.
Friday, July 25, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.
Planetarium - Defying Gravity
Defying Gravity
Join host Apollo Aurora and her science reporters as they explore the science behind rocket power, gravity on other planets, and even monstrous black holes! Robot experts Apple 1-6-8-6 and EGR-1 will also lend a few circuits to explain the force that keeps us humans all grounded. Well, some of the time!
Organization: RPSEC - AIK. Event Locator: 2024-ADPRCJ.
Friday, July 25, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Planetarium.