Time now for another community spotlight.

This time we have a special guest.

We're in the WSU Tri-Cities Studios, but we have a partner in community education.

We have Prisco Blanco from CBC's planetarium and the observatory there.

You're also a former aurora hunter.

Can you real quick explain what that means?

I'm part of a citizen science project that hunts the Northern Lights from the Tri-Cities area, which was kind of how I got involved with the planetarium.

That's incredible, Prisco.

So, he knows his stuff.

Actually, one of the shows that you'll see at the planetarium is his show.

There's a couple others, a handful of others still.

Can you tell us about those?

Yeah.

So my show, it's usually...

The way shows are structured as they have, the first half, is usually a presentation on our 36ft dome.

The dome can simulate the night sky and different celestial events.

So for mine, I do mine on the northern lights.

And depending on the presenter, it will change.

And then we, afterwards, we then have a film that will play an educational film that kind of gives you sort of this 3D ride of different subjects, whether it be climate change or, you know, how stars are born or how black holes form or galaxies, things like that.

So various subjects.

Sure.

So this is at CBC, Columbia Basin College, over in Pasco.

And this isn't just for students, isn't just for aurora hunters.

It's for everyone in the community, Right?

Everyone can join.

We have public shows, on every first and third Friday of the month at 3 p.m. and every second and fourth Saturday at 2 p.m. in English, and then every first Saturday of the month in Spanish.

We have, from 5 to 6, we have a Spanish speaking show.

And then prices will range, depending on who's purchasing the ticket.

So if you're a CBC student and you have a ID, it's free for you.

If you have a child who's five years or less in age, it's also free.

And then it's $11 for adults and then $8 for senior citizens.

Perfect.

Very affordable.

And you learn a lot.

So, Prisco, you were telling me one of the goals with these Spanish shows as well is to continue growing them.

What do you hope to see in the future?

Right now we only have one Spanish show, so I want to expand it beyond that.

Hopefully get the, you know, the Spanish speaking community more involved in science.

I know that's something that I feel like it's kind of been lacking in the community the last few years.

I know CBC, for example, we're pushing to be more bilingual, more inclusive for the Hispanic community, but also just to serve the students.

We have 49% of our students are Hispanic or Spanish speaking background.

And so we want to have something that's inclusive for them and to kind of build on that.

So hopefully this is the first step to something much better.

Absolutely.

My goodness, you can learn so much.

And you know, I was talking to them about why auroras, you can see them more often, frequently.

Those are the kind of things you're going to learn about at the CBC shows.

So check it out.

We'll have a link in the comments here.