Southern Nevada Public Television (SNPT) and Vegas PBS today announced that Reggie Burton was elected president of the Southern Nevada Public Television Board of Directors, the non-profit organization whose mission is to provide financial support for Vegas PBS.

Other newly elected officers of the SNPT board include Kelly Peterson of Bank of America, vice president, Jim Dionizio of NSTec, treasurer and Lori Lea of Dekker/Perich/Sabatini, secretary.

"I am delighted to be among this group of community leaders committed to securing valuable funding so that we may continue delivering cutting-edge and innovative programming to Southern Nevada,” Burton said.

Burton thanked immediate past president Lisa Dove-Swisher for her enthusiastic leadership. During her tenure as president, Dove-Swisher worked to bring new members to the board, chaired the Vegas PBS 40th Anniversary Gala and conducted a strategic retreat to create a roadmap for positioning Southern Nevada’s public television station as a distributor of programs and services to support the community.

Burton, president of public relations firm Reggie Burton Communications, and a former gaming executive with MGM MIRAGE, was elected in 2006 to serve a three-year term on the Southern Nevada Public Television Board. During this time, he served as the organization’s vice president and chair of the Advocacy Council.

About Vegas PBS

For more than 40 years, Vegas PBS has provided Southern Nevada with quality, commercial-free programming, media and media delivery technology. Vegas PBS provides broadcast TV and cable over seven channels with an additional six educational channels provided directly to the Clark County School District classroom. Vegas PBS local productions include Nevada Week in Review, Inside Education, Recession Rx, Homework Hotline, Varsity Quiz, Remembering the Holocaust: Las Vegas Survivors Tell Their Stories, Building Vegas GREENer, Fit Kids, Active Families, School Matters and election debates. In 2009, Vegas PBS completed construction on its Educational Technology Campus, a model for sustainability and green building practices. The campus will house Vegas PBS studios and offices, Clark County School District’s Virtual High School, Educational Media Services, the Emergency Response Data-casting System, public meeting rooms and training facilities. Visit www.VegasPBS.org for additional information and programming highlights.

Posted February 2, 2010 1:08 PM by Blogging Vegas | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This

Farts, Burps, and Hurl Capture Kids' Attention and Imagination

Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body, a traveling exhibition exploring the good, the bad and the ugly about how your body works, is currently on display in the Cultural Gallery at Lied Discovery Children’s Museum through September 7, 2009.

Grossology is a collaboration between Science World, Advanced Exhibits and Sylvia Branzei, a teacher, microbiologist and author of the best‐selling children’s book of the same name. The exhibition uses creative animatronics and interactives to teach about runny noses, body odor and other unmentionables. Visitors will be able to learn how your nose acts as an air filter and mucus producer, mimic the buildup of acid indigestion at a burp machine, and climb on large replica of human skin.
As the museum’s summer spotlight, Grossology takes the place of the highly successful Adventures With Clifford the Big Red Dog exhibition and becomes the third science‐based addition to the facility in 2009. The Green Village and It’s Your Choice core exhibitions were added earlier this year.

“Lied Discovery Children’s Museum is a center for science in the Las Vegas Valley,” executive director Linda Quinn said. “Grossology makes science fun for children and families, which is why it’s a perfect fit. We are fortunate the support of the community continues to enable the museum to bring bigger and better science exhibits and educational opportunities to our members and visitors.”

Grossology is locally sponsored by Cox Communications.

Lied Discovery Childrenʹs Museum is located at 833 Las Vegas Blvd. North in downtown Las Vegas and features more than 100 interactive exhibits in the arts, sciences and humanities for children and families. For more information, visit www.ldcm.org or call (702) 382‐3445.

Posted June 12, 2009 1:42 PM by Blogging Vegas | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email This