Talcott Mountain Science Center

Talcott Mountain Science Center for Student Involvement ( " TSMC ") is a science center, which includes a private school. The campus is located in Avon (Connecticut), USA. The focus of the school is characterized mathematics and science. Unlike the center itself, the school is with " TMA " Talcott Mountain Academy, abbreviated.

History

In 1967, TSMC was founded as part of a program of the Ministry of Education of the United States by members of the " Avon Public School Districts " ( co-founders were, among others, Superintendent Francis Driscoll, high school teacher ( high school) Donald P. La Salle and George C. Atamian an astronomer and also high school teacher ( high school) ). The school is located on the Talcott Mountain, a ridge near Hartford, Connecticut's capital.

The original building ( three houses and a smaller defense buildings), which are located on the territory of today's school were used during the Cold War as part of the air defense missile program. Stations as they were for many years the backbone of American air defense.

The campus today

Today, three main buildings are located on campus. The first (student technology building) includes a multimedia library, the Captain Alan L. Bean Hypospherium / Planetarium (the largest Planetarium in Connecticut ), and a television studio. The administration is also housed in this building. The second building (alternative energy and Chronobiology building) contains a greenhouse, a multimedia foreign language room, a dark room, the music hall, mathematics and science laboratories, a seminar room for education and training with regard to alternative energy sources, and a library. In the third building ( Building Academy ) are the art room and classrooms.

In addition to the three main buildings there is an amateur radio station (call sign W1TMS ), a meteorological weather observation point, an observation deck / Sundial (20 foot), a playground, a picnic area, a soccer field for physical training. But the highlight of the campus, the observatory is with many different telescopes that can be controlled and adjusted by a separate building by computer. This is a telescope of the type Meade 16 inch and a Tinsley 12 ½ inches. In addition to the 18-inch Dobsonian, there are also numerous smaller telescopes that are available for lessons in astronomy are available. The science center offers courses in astronomy and other scientific fields of public and private schools.

Known graduates

As a major former graduates include Eric Fossum, an associate professor at the University of Southern California and Stephen G. Perlman, an entrepreneur and inventor to name ( in Multimedia-/Kommunikationsbereich ).