Being a Midwest based company, with offices here in Redford, Michigan, and a large number of our school assemblies taking place in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, we often forget to write about the great school shows that we send into schools in California. It is time to rectify that situation!

Stronger Than a Bully, the new Anti Bullying school assembly Mobile Ed premiered last August, has enjoyed a smashingly successful freshman season this school year. Winning rave reviews everywhere from Massachusetts to Texas, the tour is virtually sold out for the remainder of this school year (a few odd slots do remain in some select areas, so be sure to check if you are interested!). 

Science is not the same as science fiction, but they certainly have one thing in common. Both focus on our future. Actual science is the underpinning of technology and advancements in almost every field effecting our health, economy and survival. And when it comes to real science, American students are not doing so well.

OK, time for a little blowing of our own horn. Year after year, all over the country schools offer up acclaim for our awesome portable planetarium, The Sky Dome. Four separate tours carrying this brilliant inflatable planetarium travel all over the country every year.

I finally got out to see a performance of our newest science assembly last week! Wow! I am so pleased, and so were the kids in the audience at the school in Clio, Michigan where this awesome show show took place!

Monday is the day we celebrate the birthday of a great and oh so important American, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Schools across the country are finding ways to celebrate this great man’s life, and, at least in our opinion, there is no better way to do that than with a school assembly program that brings Dr. King’s story to life for kids and adults alike.

These days many schools are felling the weight of state mandates testing and are opting to reduce time for assemblies and school shows. Those that do continue using school assemblies often try to focus them exclusively on tested areas such as Math and Reading.

On January 9, 1493 Christopher Columbus, spotted in the waters near the Dominican Republic what he thought to be three mermaids. In his notes he described them as “not half as beautiful as they are painted”. Today we think he was looking at three manatees or “sea-cows” Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And our expectations often color our perceptions.

One of the nicer aspects of working in the school assembly business is hearing from our clients when they just love a program and cannot wait to tell us. 

I know you have all been waiting desperately for this, so here it is, our newest School Assembly Dog of the Month. I must confess to a shortage of School Assembly Dog of the Month entries at present, so this month we give the award to not a specific animal but rather to a kind of animal. May we have a drum roll please .... The Mobile Ed Productions Dog of the Month Award for January 2012 goes to ....  The Family Dog!