Megan Warner received the Founder's Award Thursday night at the Space Center's Honor's Night for nearly 25 years of dedicated service both as a volunteer and member of staff. She is the only person who has worked at some point in her career at the following space centers in Utah County
1. Christa McAuliffe Space Center (she currently works here)
2. Discovery Space Center at Canyon Grove Charter School
3. Discovery Space Center at Stonegate
4. Telos Discovery Space Center at TelosU in Orem / Vineyard
5. The Space Place at Renaissance Academy (she currently works at here)
6. The Discovery Space Center at American Heritage School (she currently works here)
Megan started as a young volunteer at the Space Center in October 2021. Since then it was onward and upward!
Voyager shirt promotion: April/May 2002
Supervisor pass off: May 2003
Summer 2003: supervised, worked in kitchen, started FD training in Odyssey.
Flight director pass in Odyssey: Late summer 2004.
Started flying Phoenix August 2005.
Supervisor pass off: May 2003
Summer 2003: supervised, worked in kitchen, started FD training in Odyssey.
Flight director pass in Odyssey: Late summer 2004.
Started flying Phoenix August 2005.
Set Director of Phoenix: Late 2005- December 2009
LDS Mission to S. Korean 2009-2011
Returned from her mission in the summer of 2011 and did all the same stuff at the Space Center she was doing before.
Returned from her mission in the summer of 2011 and did all the same stuff at the Space Center she was doing before.
Megan took the reigns of the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center when I retired at the end of May 2013. She kept the Space Center together and functioning during what could have been a very difficult year, but wasn't thanks to her skills, professionalism, and dedication to the spirit of the center and its mission. She did an excellent job!
Megan took a break from Utah and moved to California to be with family after James Porter assumed control of the CMSEC as director. Spending three years in California was enough for her. She returned to Utah.
Being in the right place at the right time is Megan's philosophy. I personally believe she and Fortuna, the Goddess of Fortune, have some kind of special bond.
During her time at the Space Center, Megan has flown, at some point in her career, the Odyssey, Phoenix, Galileo, Voyager, Magellan, and Falcon.
During her time at the Discovery Space Center she supervised the Columbia and Atlantis; and flew the Atlantis, Columbia, Challenger, and Endeavor. At the Discovery Space Center at Canyon Grove she flew the Everest and Pathfinder
She helped at iWorlds as they were trying to open a space center in Murry, Utah as a staff trainer. She also helped with the Valiant a couple of times.
At the Space Place at Renaissance Academy Megan supervises and flys the Voyager II and Nighthawk.
She was hired at American Heritage's Discovery Space Center in January 2024 where she flies and supervises the Discovery.
I know I've left something out of that long list of accomplishments, but you get the picture. Megan has been there every time she was needed at any of the space centers. Space Centering is in her blood. It is her work, her hobby, and her passion.
Thank you Megan for Everything!
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