Center of Science, Art, Technology & Nature; With Interactive & Educational Experiences. 

         Many people have never visited a world-class Science & Technology Center. They can be as different as night and day, as straightforward as an industrial museum or as imaginative as a movie studio’s fantasy set. They are as unique as the vision of their creators and the available technologies. With that in mind the following written visualization is the blueprint for the center MRISAR will be creating. It will help you to imagine what it will be like.

“Upon arriving at the school facility, you see a place that is a fusion of old, new and future concepts surrounded by nature. Nature’s colors in the form of many sculpted gardens spread across the lawns. Nestled in between are shining futuristic sculptures that seem to have a life of their own. Their color patterns shimmer and shift and otherworldly sounds softly emanate from them, as they react to their environment by interpreting sounds, light and touch.

As you enter the main entrance lobby, you pass through a geometric arch of shimmering light and into a dimly lit cave like opening. Here the walls seem alive with a strange interplay of light and sound that responds to your movements, touch and voice. Passing through, the opening suddenly expands, ushering you into a vast otherworldly subterranean cavern.

Before you is a transparent walkway that you must traverse as it slowly descends into the oddly illuminated chamber. Moving forward you look beneath your feet to see movement in an alien landscape below the walkway. You are not sure what is moving, but you know it is not any life form native to earth. To the right a large column reaches up to touch the curved ceiling. From the ceiling shafts of light cast down and spotlight some of the otherworldly terrain. Iridescent colors, and soft chiming sounds flow across the vista. Vines, strange plants and large crystal formations encrust the ceiling and hang down to the floor. These, like the other things that are encountered, seem to have a life of their own, as they shimmer, shift and softly sing in eerie ways.

A lighted opening in the main column allows you to glimpse yet another astonishing sight, as numerous aquatic creatures swim within the column’s center. They are alien looking life forms not native to earth. You reach your hand out to the transparent wall that confines them and are surprised as they react to you.

You move onward into the semi-glowing, dimly lit cavern. The faint sound of cascading water reaches your ear. Following the sound to the right, you find yourself entering a smaller, darker cavern. You smell the scent of running water, and see a shimmering illuminated waterfall, where strange metallic-human like creatures perch on rocks, turning to stare at you as you approach. Their voices emanate a lilting, haunting tune, like the Siren’s of Greek Mythology. Scattered through out the dim cave are fluorescent alien plant and insect life forms.

You venture once more out into the main cavern to continue to explore. You encounter many other creatures and controls for various experiments in this strange yet visually stunning place. During your travels and observations, many scientific principles are learned though the entertaining venue of your visit to this subterranean world!

As you move into the cavern’s depths, you finally encounter an incline ascending upwards towards a glowing opening. You are drawn onwards. The glowing door opens up like an iris, into a greenhouse unlike any on this earth. There are plants you recognize, but others that are eerie and alien. They emit a low, rumbling purr as they turn to follow your movements and shrilly shriek if you get too close! Although you feel a safe familiarity with the hydroponics and conventional plantings, you are unsettled by the presence of the non-human workers that glide above your head to tend to the plants.

Upon exiting the back of the green house, you once more feel the tangible earth beneath your feet and see the familiar sky above you. A continuation of sculpted natural and alien gardens stretch onward. You have noticed through out your nature walk that besides the luscious scents and the diverse sights of various plants, that signs are placed near them, stating their names and describing what aliments they treat and how to prepare them. You are learning about the healing potential of herbs as you wander through acres of gardens. You are also introduced to many forms of energy: solar, wind, kinetic, etc, as you interact with the non-earthly lifelike sculptures.

Now you have an idea of what our Science & Technology Center will be like. With its uniqueness it will draw tourism and school field trips from great distances. It will also be used as a giant prop for our upcoming Sci-Fi educational family television show. We have already been assured of it being aired upon completion.

The funds generated from these ventures will aid in our humanitarian and environmental research and development. Our ultimate goal for the center is for it to be 100% self-sustaining, using alternative energy for every need. In addition to these projects we will also be developing a series of educational kits.

The only drawback with this location is the lack of overnight lodging and restaurants that are capable of housing and feeding groups of visitors. This lacking led us to the solution by creating events such as “A Night at the Museum” (in our case “A Night at the Institute”) for groups coming from great distances. Over night stays in Centers and Museums are becoming increasingly popular across the United States. Online research shows that this is a current trend.

 Ironically regardless of it’s rural location the institute project is being looked at with keen interest by professional organizations worldwide. Many of the directors, curators, doctors and professors we deal with from museums and other educational institutions are fascinated by the potential merits of our project with regard to the reuse of the property, exhibitions, humanitarian and environmental factors and our goal of having the entire place run on alternative energy. The scientific community understands the need for alternative energy, pioneering projects. Some have already expressed an interest in visiting and many have promised to send extra work our way to help us to generate funds for the project, which assures additional funds to work on the exhibit area and to start purchasing solar panels and other alternative energy devices to help with the project. Naturally it is a substantial venture so additional funds will be needed to complete the entire project. Still this is a very good start.

Locally we have also received encouraging feedback. Some people including a number of former teachers have expressed how happy they are to see the property being used and cared for again. The first few months of our time here required a minimum of 12 hour work days, seven days a week from us, just to take care of initial clearing, maintenance and repairs. During that span many people came to greet us and brought food from their garden to share. Those acts of kindness meant a great deal to us.