West Virginia Alliance for STEM and the Arts partnered with Emmy nominated Director Katie Dellamaggiore of Rescued Media, and with our sponsors and partners around West Virginia, to bring their new program “Stories with STEAM – The Appalachian Circuit” featuring Small Town Universe to several communities in West Virginia. The event at Marshall took place last night, Wednesday, March 12th, at the Joan C Edwards Performing Arts Center and included a reception, the film screening of Small Town Universe at 6:00 pm, followed by an in-person Q & A panel with Dellamaggiore, film subjects including Marshall University Physics graduate, Ellie White, and local STEM and Humanities experts including Physics Professor, Dr. Maria Hamilton. More details can be found in the press release at WV All STAR’s webpage.
Small Town Universe shares stories of love, loss, resilience, hope, faith, scientific discovery, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Green Bank, WV, a small town with a big telescope. STU debuted this past April at the 2024 Cleveland International Film Festival in the historic Mimi Theater, where it won the Global Health Award, and was part of the Solar Eclipse day events that were made possible by a partnership between CIFF, the Great Lakes Science Center, and NASA’s Glenn Research Center. It has been and continues to go to multiple film festivals, winning awards and audiences’ hearts across the country and beyond.
