I recently heard that the Lower Hudson Valley Challenger Center has been taken over by the town government, which is backed up by a rebranding to make it the Ramapo Challenger Learning Center. https://twitter.com/Ramapo_CC
I have heard a rumor that the "new" CC is not as good at doing some things as it used to be. Some staff may have been converted so there are no more full-time employees, and there was no booth at the nearby North East Astronomy Forum this year, like LHVCC has had in past years. The primary function of the Challenger Center is to be a local destination for local kids for STEM education, and spacecraft models is just a neat tangent to the mission. Obviously the Town of Ramapo are keeping the lights on, judging from Twitter and their new website. This might be worth some further study, because the jleslie site that aggregates so many great card models, on jleslie's own site, is still branded with the original LHVCC identification.
I guess there are several outcomes, starting with continued business as usual. But with new management, there may be a different attitude to the collection of completed models at the facility. That is no big deal for those of us who are in no position to visit the Ramapo Challenger Learning Center, but also it's questionable whether jleslie will continue to brand the website as a part of LHVCC, and come to that, nothing lasts forever. So if you like something, try to keep it alive.
I have heard a rumor that the "new" CC is not as good at doing some things as it used to be. Some staff may have been converted so there are no more full-time employees, and there was no booth at the nearby North East Astronomy Forum this year, like LHVCC has had in past years. The primary function of the Challenger Center is to be a local destination for local kids for STEM education, and spacecraft models is just a neat tangent to the mission. Obviously the Town of Ramapo are keeping the lights on, judging from Twitter and their new website. This might be worth some further study, because the jleslie site that aggregates so many great card models, on jleslie's own site, is still branded with the original LHVCC identification.
I guess there are several outcomes, starting with continued business as usual. But with new management, there may be a different attitude to the collection of completed models at the facility. That is no big deal for those of us who are in no position to visit the Ramapo Challenger Learning Center, but also it's questionable whether jleslie will continue to brand the website as a part of LHVCC, and come to that, nothing lasts forever. So if you like something, try to keep it alive.