Location to stage an Space STEAM Day event for middle-grade students in Atlanta in March?
This March, as part of Atlanta Science Festival in Atlanta, GA, my team and I are staging an "astronaut job fair" for student attendees of the festival. Along with a central street fair-type location, Atlanta Science Festival (ASF) takes place city-wide over the course of a couple weeks. Our event, Astronaut Job Fair, is a full-day event for STEAM-directed middle grade students with an interest in Space. (STEAM=Science Technology Engineering Arts (and) Mathematics.) And we need a space to stage this ASF event.
Astronaut Job Fair (AJF) is a full day of Space career fun, with career-skill development, team-building, "real talk", lunch and snack, displays of future inventions, and broad science and art introduction–built around future jobs in Space. Our purpose with AJF is to ready kids to live, work, and play in Space–by imparting real thinking to creating an amazing future with themselves in it. And that's the gist of the event.
My colleagues and I staging this event for Atlanta Science Festival are all Space industry professionals who together and individually have done any number of smaller events in convention center and regular school settings, typically in classrooms or for specific grades in school auditoriums and for an hour or two at a time. Middle-grade students are our typical participants, and this is the first astronaut job fair we have staged to a general audience.
We are looking for a location in Atlanta that has at least one big room for the entire group–approximately 100+ students plus team–as well as places to break into smaller groups for conversation and teams, and maybe a lobby. A college or cool office/lobby setting, or a warehouse or performance space that could home a pop-up event, or something unexpected and inspiring and fun. Modern? Sunny? Warehouse? Brick? Loft-y? YES. (Also: an adjacent outdoor space/patio would be welcome/lovely/thrilling.) These are some of the types of spaces we can possibly stage our Space STEAM event. The AJF attendees are from a wide-range of backgrounds and sensibilities, united by their passion for STEAM. Most of all we are looking to have them takeaway a positive, memorable, and inspiring impression.
Those are the specifics. Suggestions or recommendations, Hivemind Atlanta? Future astronauts of Atlanta are counting on you! |
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