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Founders Hall Visitor Experience
Founders Hall Rotunda with a video being projected on the ceiling.
The Milton Hershey School, a free boarding school founded by a famous chocolatier, wanted a modern visitors center.
From early strategy to the completed installation, we gave the Milton Hershey School a new way of introducing themselves to the world. The Founders Hall Visitor Experience immerses visitors in the school's history, from its founding over a century ago to the students who call the campus home today.
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Rotunda Dome Projections
At the center of Founders Hall is the second largest rotunda in the country. We activated its ceiling with a film that combines archival documents with custom animation to tell the story of Milton Hershey's life and the early days of the school.
The building's unique shape was an opportunity to experiment with projection mapping and illusions, combining classical architecture with contemporary technology.
Story Columns
Through a suite of video towers, current students share highlights from campus life. Our original video work offers a glimpse into day-to-day life at the Milton Hershey School.
Motion-activated video screens show films of student life.
Because the video kiosks are motion-activated, guests are personally greeted by the student on screen and immediately pulled into the start of a fresh story.
Interactive Yearbook
An interactive yearbook, combining a touch screen and digital projection, encourages visitors to explore the school's history.
Visitors explore an interactive yearbook that combines a touch screen with projected video.
The large-scale wall projection responds to user feedback on the touch screen, with projected animations aligning with the more in-depth touch screen content.
Ambient Archives
Our team had the privilege of sifting through a century of school archives, pulling out photos and documents to illustrate the Milton Hershey School's core values and continuing legacy.
Two women walk past a series of projections highlighting Hershey's vision for the school.
A montage of students is projected onto a large wall.
Something that really resonated with me was something very close to what I say… 'What do you want people to know? What do you want people to feel?' and Bluecadet took it one step further with this: 'What do you want them to do? What's that call to action?'
Susan Alger, Milton Hershey School
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