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Portable Planetarium

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Bring the Stars to Your Students!

Portable, immersive, TEKS-aligned planetarium experiences for elementary, middle, and high school.

Portable Planetarium logoBring the universe to your campus with the Region 7 inflatable planetarium experience, designed to make space science engaging, hands-on, and accessible for students of all ages. Whether you're working with curious elementary learners or diving deeper into complex astronomy concepts with middle and high school students, this immersive tool supports learning across every grade level. After attending a required half-day training, teams of two educators can reserve the planetarium for classroom use. The Region 7 Science Team will show you how to align it with TEKS and provide everything you need to set up and share the experience across your campus.
 
How It Works:
  • Step 1: Register for the Portable Planetarium training (teams of two)
  • Step 2: Become eligible to check out the planetarium
  • Step 3: Reserve your dates (see our calendar below)
  • Step 4: Educators will pick up the planetarium from the previous school district and set it up on their campus; Region 7 will support alignment with TEKS
 
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The planetarium is 18 feet in diameter and 12 feet in height. 
Make sure your setup location has plenty of room!
 
 
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SEPTEMBER 2025 calendar.  All weeks are reserved except for Week 3, September 15 - 19. OCTOBER 2025 calendar.  All weeks are reserved.  October 23-24th are available.
NOVEMBER 2025 calendar shows all weeks reserved.  December 2025 calendar has December 8-12 still available for reservations.
JANUARY 2026 calendar.  All weeks have been reserved.  FEBRUARY 2026 calendar.  All weeks have been reserved.
March 2026 calendar.  Week 28, March 23-27 is still available. APRIL 2026 calendar.  April 6-10 is still available.
MAY 2026 calendar.  Week 36, May 18-22 is still available.  YELLOW - OPEN WEEK, RED - BOOKED, BLUE - TENTATIVE
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Below are the current pre-warped videos that are available on the planetarium laptop. This is for preview only, please do not download nor share. The actual videos are played from the mediashow app on the laptop. The Fishtank folder houses the fisheye videos that must be played through the Fishtank software.
 
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