Apprenticeships
Catalyst:
Technology that projects, relays, and emanates educational content.
We are optimizing STEM Audio/Visual components in all participating schools.
Conduit:
Audio/Visual Technology Upgrades and Updates.
A Global Mass-Inclusion Event.
Invited: All Schools on Earth.
Event: Spaceposium Global Space Expo 2026
Largest virtual audience for any Space Expo ever attempted.
Spaceposium Audio/Visual Innovation Grant
Impact: Innovative solutions that provide schools with quality, functional Audio/Visual equipment.
The Spaceposium Innovation Grant supported member research that aimed to identify 10,000 Elementary, Middle and High Schools that will receive an AV Upgrade Package.
Audio/Visual Equipment Upgrade program provides 10,000 schools with complete AV equipment modernization, including initial setup, and a training & certification package.
- 10 foot LED Video Wall
- 20 Sets of VR Goggles
- 1 Bose Sound Tower
- 1 Laptop w/LED Wall Control and Audio/Video Software
- Global Space Expo in a Cannister
- Three (3) SPACEPOSIUM Vol 1, Hard-Back, Large-Format Library Books
- 100 Spaceposium Magazines w/ Infographics and stickers.
- Delivered and installed and tested, including a demo and on-site training.
Space Link Recon:
The Space Generation Advisory Council in Support of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications aims to represent university students and young space professionals ages 18-35 to the United Nations, space agencies, industry, and academia.
Launch Support, Strategy and Sustainment Partners
Ben McLaren, Executive Director
Creator/Producer
What is “SPACEPOSIUM”?
Thinking about upcoming symposiums and content…, during a time when there were many rocket launches and people going to the edge of Space. The question loomed: What was going on in the Space industry, in Lower Earth Orbit, Space Force, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, SNC, JPL, NASA and all the other space-related activies..?” People were always paying attention to Space. What does it all mean?
I registered “Spaceposium.com” with the idea that Spaceposium could be a non-fiction, almanac-style school library book. From there, the idea sprang forth to generate ‘Spaceposium’ as an online Space resource environment, using VR, Meta, and other platforms, in parallel, using one main source for a quarterly Space Expo using Zoom. I registered Spaceposium.org to assist in the global effort to promote, support, and deliver Space-STEM philanthropy.
For these Events, every school on Earth is invited. Looking at how Spaceposium educational events, live streaming content and curriculum would be delivered into each school, it was plain to see that a vast majority of schools do not have the quality of AV equipment needed to generate and deliver a high-quality event experience. Combined with great educational value, and an un-heard of 10,000 School AV Upgrade initiative, Spaceposium is here to make a momentus contribution to our Children and to Humanity.
Spaceposium.com: Educational and Commercial Content
Spaceposium.org: Initiatives – supported by Sponsorships, Grants and Donations
Born in Aschaffenburg, Germany in the 60’s, Ben first came to the United States at the age of 4. After 1 year, his parents moved back to Germany, and he grew up going to school on US Military bases. He was in the US Army for 4 years, and became a naturalized US citizen, and earned a BA in Marketing from Univ of South Florida, he then worked his way into a tech job by learning how to build websites and manage end user accounts. He spent 9 years at IBM working his way up from the e-Commerce, EDI global service desk to IBM E-Commerce Senior Sales Executive, and during that time, completed an MBA in Technology Management. He then spent 11 years working for the Dept of Defense at various locations in Germany.
In Europe, he coordinated numerous on and off-site conferences providing thousands of Students with hands-on labs and computers running technologies including 3D graphics, CAD-CAM, 3D printing. He also worked with a Team of 300 IT personnel, supporting over 37000 students at 81 U.S. schools in 9 countries across Europe and the Middle East.
In 2017, he retired from the US Government and returned to Tampa and has been working in Event/Ceremony/Conference production – audio/visual live and studio production since 2018 at MacDill AFB.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmclaren/
