As this school years winds down we keep receiving cards back from client schools telling us how much they enjoy our awesome school shows. It is hard not to let it go to our heads a little. But when you work as hard as we do at providing schools with totally amazing educational assembly programs, to have that work recognized is a wonderful feeling.

Derek McDonald is a long time presenter for Mobile Ed. He started with us years ago handling our television production program Lights Camera Action. And he has always been wonderful with that show. He has subsequently begun to perform over the last couple of years with three other shows. He now offers schools a choice of seeing him with Sky Dome Planetarium, The Earth Dome (aka The Earth Balloon) or with our Character Counts school show Inspector Iwannano. He always excels with all of them.

Just recently, Derek appeared at the Burnet Hill Elementary School in Livingston, New Jersey. He brought with him that day our super cool Sky Dome Planetarium.

Now, granted, it is hard to not appeal to kids when you have a giant silver dome inside of which is an utterly awesome digital star projector. But Derek infuses the program with his own energy and excitement and the results are always well loved. Here is what our contact at Burnet Hill wrote to us following that day:

“What a great show! We really enjoyed Sky Dome! Teachers and students loved it!!!!! It was definitely a one of a kind show. Please pass along a big thank you to Derek, he was terrific!!!!!”

That's the kind of reaction we like, and we never get tired of hearing words like those, which is a good thing because we hear these comments every day!

By the way, If you are thinking you might like to have derek visit your school, you had better be on the East Coast somewhere because that is the part of the country Derek loves best and that is where he tours each year. But if you happen to live in the midwest or out west somewhere, don't despair! We have equally great and awesome school assembly performers coming to your state, too!

Geoff Beauchamp is the Regional Manager of Mobile Ed Productions where "Education Through Entertainment" has been the guiding principal since 1979. Mobile Ed Productions produces and markets quality educational school assembly programs in the fields of science, history, writing, astronomy, natural science, mathematics, character issues and a variety of other curriculum based areas. In addition, Mr. Beauchamp is a professional actor with 30 years of experience in film, television and on stage. He created and still performs occasionally in Mobile Ed's THE LIVING LINCOLN. He also spent ten years coordinating assembly programs for the elementary school where his own children went to school.