StarHouse Discovery Center: Wish List

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	Wish List
	StarLab (new) or GoDome	$12,843 - $13,550	The StarLab, or another portable planetarium, would be taken to various schools and set up to deliver presentations related to the State Science or Social Studies Core Curriculum.
	or StarLab (used)	$10,000

	Digitarium Delta	$16,950	With a digital projector we would have a lot more flexibility in the presentations we could give to schools than with the analog cylinder system traditionally part of a StarLab.
	or Digital StarLab	$44,995

	Minivan (for outreach)	$12,000 (used) - $24,000 (new)	While a complete StarLab system will fit in a VW New Beetle, once we have new modules for Jr Science & Astronomy built, we will need a dedicated vehicle in which to transport everything to the schools.

	School Visit Sponsors	$1,000 per school	We want this to be an ongoing program, which will require equipment & vehicle maintenance, replacement of supplies, and salaries

	Office & Shop Space, Equipment & Supplies	?	We will need space, equipment, and supplies to plan, design, & schedule our presentations, and to build and maintain the Jr Science & Astronomy modules.

	Program Director Salaries (2)	$30,000 each	The Program Directors will be responsible for planning, designing, and scheduling presentations at schools, building and maintaining the Jr Science & Astronomy modules, and taking the equipment to the schools and delivering the presentations. One Program Director will be primarily based in the Cache Valley area, and the other one will travel throughout the rest of the Intermountain West. The amount is comprable to first-year teacher salaries.

	Financial Officer Salary	$30,000	Those of us organizing the StarHouse Discovery Center all have training in science outreach, but we know we are going to need someone with financial training to help us track of everything. It would be nice if we could find someone with the necessary skills to be CFO and willing to volunteer their time, but we will probably need to hire, or at least contract out, someone to do this.

	Advertising	?	We want to let people know what we are doing, when the program will be at their neighborhood school, and when community presentations or special events will be happening.

	Land & a Building	?	Eventually, the StarHouse Discovery Center will be a permanent planetarium and children's science museum in Cache Valley, while the Jr Science & Astronomy program will continue traveling throughout the Intermountain West.