America’s leadership in technology and innovation boosted the nation’s position as a world leader after World War II. Today the U.S. remains a leader, however, many trends provide cause for alarm—including the low performance of Americans in math and science compared to other nations.
Many of our clients are actively engaged on this issue.
Rocky Mountain Power recently supported a conference called “Expanding Your Horizons,” which hosted 300 girls for a day to encourage them to pursue careers in math and science. Read more at Rocky Mountain Power’s website.
This coming Saturday (March 26) Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City is hosting veteran astronaut Kent Roiminger who will discuss his experiences in space before a special showing of Hubble 3D. If you’re in Utah, and especially if you have children, you will not want to miss this event. Visit Clark Planetarium’s website for more information.
Watch this video to learn more about why science education is important to our future:
This video was produced by RIESTER for Arizona’s Solutions Through Higher Education.
Written on August 3rd, 2010 | Posted by Jim Breitinger
In 1923, on a trip to New York City, Englishman and explorer George Mallory was asked “Why climb Mt. Everest?” His famous reply: “Because it’s there,” says something important about the human spirit.
George Mallory. Photograph courtesy of The Alpine Club Photo Library, London--via National Geographic.
Why do anything? From getting out of bed in the morning to going to the moon, our species often does things because we are driven to do them, often by intangible forces. We are driven to conquer new frontiers, driven to uncover the mysteries of life, driven to discover and to learn.
In the early 1920s George Mallory’s obsession was to do something that had never been done before: Climb the highest mountain on Earth.
RIESTER strongly identifies with people and organizations with a burning mission. We have a diverse group of clients. One group of our clients broadly includes clients with a cause. Causes we work on include promoting recycling, sustainability–including renewable energy, education, exposing the severe dangers of addiction (our work serves as a deterrent) and a variety of issues related to promoting better health.
George Mallory died in his effort to conquer Mount Everest, yet what he did speaks to me in the broad sense that the men and women that change the world do so because of a burning desire to break through boundaries.
RIESTER client Clark Planetarium has been offering a preview of the National Geographic film “The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest” which opens at Imax theaters nationally August 6, 2010. The film is constructed around the story of the discovery of Mallory’s body on Everest in 1999 by American Conrad Anker. Directed by Anthony Geffen, “The Wildest Dream” reconstructs Mallory’s story from the early 1920s, including his final and fatal ascent of Everest.
Thank you to Salt Lake City’s Clark Planetarium for the special screening last night. Thanks too to Conrad Anker, George Geffen, the people at National Geographic and everyone else behind this film–especially George Mallory.
What do you do, or what challenge do you take on, because it’s there?
Written on March 18th, 2010 | Posted by Stacey Carroll
Clark Planetarium is one of the most educationally satisfying clients for RIESTER’s Salt Lake City office. Every time we help the planetarium promote an event, speaker or new film, our team learns something new about the world around us and how much science affects our daily lives.
Personally, I enjoy “geeking” out at the planetarium and am very excited about the latest film, Hubble 3D, opening tomorrow March 19!
The remarkable images of outer space on the huge IMAX screen will take your breath away and make you think, ‘What else is out there?’
Astronauts Steven L. Smith, and John M. Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide scene photographed during extravehicular activity (EVA). On this space walk they are replacing gyroscopes, contained in rate sensor units (RSU), inside the Hubble Space Telescope. A wide expanse of waters, partially covered by clouds, provides the backdrop for the photograph. Photo and text from NASA.
Written on November 19th, 2009 | Posted by Alan Perkel
It’s an amazing week for one of Utah’s most treasured institutions.
Clark Planetarium serves as a gateway to science and exploration. I’ve had the honor recently of helping them revamp their website to enhance the online experience for visitors and to encourage real life visits to Clark.
On Monday, space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Right now the shuttle is at the International Space Station with astronauts doing their job to advance human knowledge and add to our experience in outer space.
There is a good chance that a young visitor to Clark will someday become an astronaut. Imagine going for a ride like this:
If sending Americans into space isn’t exciting enough, Utah received its own visitor from space on Tuesday night when a meteor lit up the night sky. Clark has an exhibit of meteorites—these are meteors that made it through the atmosphere and landed on the ground. They are pieces of rock from the earliest days of our solar system and are billions of years older than any earth rock. It’s too soon to say for sure, but there could be freshly landed pieces of outer space somewhere out in the Utah desert right now–possibly at Dugway Proving Grounds, which makes meteorite hunting problematic.
Watch this amazing nine second video of this week’s Utah meteor:
Yes, it’s an exciting week at Clark Planetarium. Visit their new website today and experience the thrill of exploring other worlds. Then plan your visit to Clark in Salt Lake City’s Gateway Mall soon.
