The Manitoba Museum’s Planetarium has accepted the “Best Program” award from the Canadian Association of Sciences Centres at the CASCADE award ceremony for its Dome@Home live-stream program.
On Thursday, October 13, the CASCADE awards took place. It is a juried selection process, where several nominated programs go through a pool and judgement to decide which ones make the final selection.
Planetarium astronomer Scott Young describes the ceremony as the “Academy Awards of the Science Centre and Planetarium field.”
“There’s always some really exciting and innovative things going on all over the place and you pick up these ideas and you see all these things, but it’s totally different when a program you worked on is nominated because then you feel, ‘wow, we’re at that same level as all of these great big places all across the country.’ So it’s humbling and also inspiring.”
The category which Dome@Home received the award for was Category 4: <$50K, meaning less than $50,000 was used to fund the program. There were other categories, including individual awards.