School administrators and educators constantly hunt for new ways to get kids excited about learning, and one of the most successful tactics they’ve discovered is to create an immersive environment that makes abstract ideas concrete, allowing students to interact with concepts in ways that reading about them doesn’t allow. When an aging planetarium housed within a middle school in Bel Air, Maryland – created to bring the cosmos to life for students – was due for an upgrade, the Office of Science didn’t want to simply replace the outdated overhead projectors with something newer. Instead, the department decided to explore other technologies that would create memorable experiences for students and facilitate core learning principles through a sensory explosion. The Setting Southampt

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