COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — Colorado Springs School District 11 (D11) has announced that the state-of-the-art Digistar Interactive Planetarium System and STEM Room will reopen at Mitchell High School on Monday.
The school board representatives, Mitchell's principal George Smith, and D11 Superintendent Michael Gaal will be celebrating Colorado Springs' only public high school planetarium.
While the planetarium is typically used for science education, some teachers have found some creative ways to teach different subjects.
D11 says a Trigonometry class used the planetarium to better understand waves by studying the movement of the planets around the sun.
It could also be used to study Greek constellations, Chinese asterisms in Mythology, or using the stars to navigate as runners on the underground railroad in history.
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