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WHO IS PEGASUS PRODUCTIONS?
The director of this
enterprise is Dayle L. Brown, an educator with over 30 years of classroom experience. Ms. Brown has specialized in planetarium
education for over 20 years. Currently combining these interests with love of art by writing/illustrating a series of books:
Skylore from the Planet Earth: stories from around the world... (ORION, PLEIADES, MILKY WAY, and soon VENUS).
Accomplishments
in the field of astronomy education include:
* 1985 Students worked with Ms. Brown after school to build a cardboard
dome for a K-6 planetarium program. A used Spitz (see Home) A1 projector was donated by Ohio State University.
* 1987
recipient of Teacher Creativity Fellowship from Lilly Endowment
*1989 selected to attend a NSF Leadership Institute
in astronomy and space science conducted by Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley
*1991
selected to attend S.P.I.C.A., a NSF Project to prepare master teachers to become resource agents for science teachers, operated
by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA
*1991 awarded rank of "Fellow" by the Great Lakes
Planetarium Association
* 1993 & 1994 served as co-director of POPS (NSF Leadership Institute in astronomy and space
science) conducted by the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley
* 2001 Writer for Indiana
Science Curriculum Frameworks Document
* 2003 selected for "A Week in the North Of Italy", hosted by Serafina Zani
Astronomical Observatory, in collaboration with the International Planetarium Society Mobile Planetarium Committee, and with
the support of Learning Technologies, Inc. Activities include presenting lessons to students, a workshop to teachers, and
a talk to general public.
Visit Science First for another source for Dayle's books.
Science First
* 2004 published first book: Skylore from Planet Earth: stories from around the world...ORION. Writen and
illustrated in full color by Dayle.
* 2005 served with NASA Explorer Institute Focus Group at NASA Glenn Research Center
*2006
published second book: Skylore from Planet Earth: stories from around the world...PLEIADES
*2006 awarded grant
by the Indiana Arts Commission to write, illustrate, and publish the third book in the Skylore series - Skylore from Planet
Earth: stories from around the world...THE MILKY WAY
*2008 published third book: Skylore from Planet Earth: stories
from around the world...MILKY WAY
*2008 artwork featured in "Sky Heroes" planetarium show at the Hayden Planetarium
in Boston, MA
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