The Coca-Cola Space Science Center needed to modernize their PreK-5 planetarium content, which serves 35% of their visitors. What began as a simple request to reformat 2D slides evolved into an opportunity to establish the center’s first-ever planetarium show production pipeline. After the initial project plans to reformat 2D projector slides for a fulldome theater failed, the project scope shifted to establish a show production pipeline. If successful, a new show could be licensed to other planetariums around the country – thereby generating a new income stream for the science center.

CHALLENGE
The main challenge is that the Science Center had never created a planetarium show in-house before. There were no established processes or workflows. There were numerous unanswered questions including questions about hardware and software requirements, budgetary concerns and a longer timeline than initially anticipated. The project scope drastically increased from a simple reformatting process to establishing a show production pipeline.

CLIENT - CocaCola Space Science Center (CCSSC) at Columbus State University