Robert Goddard is considered by many to be the father of modern rocketry, and it was in Worcester that Goddard was raised and received his undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as conducted much of his early rocket experiments. The Worcester Memorial Auditorium is a public facility that is currently unused. The purpose of this project was to assess the designs of the Auditorium, and present preliminary plans for the reuse of the auditorium as a museum for Robert Goddard. With a primary target audience of middle school aged children, the exhibit would encompass the first, second and third floors of the auditorium. In this project, the preliminary research for this project was performed, presenting proposed concepts and objects to exhibit.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Tripp, Zackary Philip
• Aleles, Nicholas John
• Mercik, Kyle David

Subject

• Learning
• Community
• Culture

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-031014-170551

Keyword

• Museum exhibits
• Historic preservation

Advisor

• Dempsey, James
• Wilkes, John M.

Year

• 2014

Sponsor

• Collings Foundation and AIAA NEC

Date created

• 2014-03-10

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright