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2023 June 20–24 U.S. National Conference, Stars For All at Bays Mountain, Kingsport, Tennessee
2022 August 22–27 PPA & WAC joined the SEPA Conference at U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Home of Space Camp®, David Weigel, Planetarium Director. This conference was live and in person, with dome time in the Rocket Center’s INTUITIVE® Planetarium. Conference meetings took place at the Huntsville Marriott, on the Rocket Center’s campus. The INTUITIVE Planetarium (67' in diameter with 248 seats), perhaps the newest dome in SEPA, opened in February 2019 after converting its former IMAX™ Theater. It has 5 Christie 4k RGB laser projectors running on Digistar 7, enabling the immersive visualizations created in house. Attendees experienced “Music of the Spheres,” a collaboration with internationally recognized violinist Itamar Zorman performing works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Eugene Ysaye, Philip Glass, Missy Mazzoli, and Claude Debussy set to visualizations created by the INTUITIVE Planetarium team. The closing banquet was an exquisite dining experience under the National Historic Landmark Saturn V moon rocket in the Davidson Center for Space Exploration. Following the farewell breakfast on Saturday, Aug. 27, attendees could take part in a one-day Space Camp experience that includes a simulated space mission, engineering challenges, astronaut simulators, and team building on our Leadership Reaction course. Learn more at www.sepadomes.org/2022-sepa-conference-huntsville-al/.
Krista Testin, host of the 2019 WAC in Omaha,
with Alan Gould, PPA Secretary.
Past WACs:
2022 August 22–27 PPA & WAC joined the SEPA Conference at U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama
2021 Aug 3 & Aug 4 Western Alliance eConference (eWAC): The New Normal—Silver Linings from the COVID-19 Pandemic
2020 27-28 July - Westen Alliance eConference, PPA Business meeting 29 July
[2020 14–16 July Live Interactive Planetarium Symposium LIPS]2019 July 31- Aug 3 Durham Science Center, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha NE, Conference organizer, Krista Testin
2018 Jun 5-9 Sharpe Planetarium Pink Palace Museum Memphis TN (SEPA/WAC)
2017 Oct 10-14 James S. McDonnell Planetarium St Louis Science Center (Pleiades national conference) St Louis MO
2016 - Montgomery, Alabama - SEPA/WAC [+ IPS in Warsaw Poland]
2015 Jul 29-Aug 2 - Albuquerque NM --{97 attendees}--
2014 Jul 22-25 University of Texas Arlington TX
2013 Sep 17-20 - Gottlieb Planetarium & Science City at Union Station Kansas City MO --{62 attendees}--
2012 Jul 22-26 - Irene W. Pennington Planetarium Baton Rouge LA (IPS)
2011 Jul 26-30 - Mayborn Planetarium & Space Theater at Central Texas College Killeen TX --{97 attendees}--
2010 Aug 3-6 - King Science & Technology Magnet Center Omaha NE --{~50 attendees}--
2009 Jun 16-18 - Sudekum Planetarium Nashville TN --{149 attendees
2008 Jun 27-Jul 2 - Adler Planetarium Chicago IL (IPS)
2007 Sep 20-22 - University of Alaska Fairbanks AK --{62 attendees}--
2006 Aug 23-26 - Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston TX --{67 attendees}--
2005 Sep 6-9 - Gates Planetarium Denver Museum of Nature & Science Denver CO
2004 Sep 29-Oct 2 - Reuben H. Fleet Science Center San Diego CA
2003 Oct 9-11 - Clark Planetarium Salt Lake City UT
2002 Oct 15-20 - Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston TX
2001 Oct 4-7 - Lane Planetarium Eugene OR --{76 attendees}--
2000 - Dallas TX - Proceedings - Sponsors - Participants
1999 - Phoenix AZ - Proceedings
1998 - LA Valley College Valley Glen CA
Past PPA Conferences
1987 May 14 - San Bernadino Valley College - Agenda