Susan Button Email & Phone Number

Susan was an outreach portable planetarium educator for 16 years and before that a classroom teacher for 11 years. She served on the Executive Council of the International Planetarium Society (IPS) as President Elect and then President (2005-2008), Past President (2009-2010) and has served as Portable Planetarium Committee chair since 1988 and as representative of the Great Lakes Planetarium Association on the IPS Council for two terms. Susan is founder of “Powerful Interactive Planetarium Systems” (PIPS) professional development meetings in the USA and co-founder of European Meetings for Small and Portable Planetariums. As associate editor for the “Planetarian”, the IPS quarterly journal, she has written a column for mobile and small planetarium directors since 1990. She also wrote and edited, in collaboration with other portable planetarium directors, two handbooks for the IPS: they were titled "IPS Portable Planetarium Handbook” in the English language and "Tips for Portable and Small Planetarium Users” in Spanish.As a consultant, through her business, “Quarks to Clusters,” she has provided teacher training and assistance to educators involved in lesson and curriculum development in 15 countries around the world.

Listed skills include Museums, Astronomy, Science, Science Education, and 29 others.