OPENING SPEECH 7:00 PM April, 3rd, 2025 Tabitha Schmidt, CEO, MoAS
Good evening everyone, good evening. Love all the chatter. Welcome everyone, I’m Tabitha Schmidt . I’m the CEO here at MoAS, The Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona. We are thrilled you are here to - night. This is actually our very first opening of 2025. Here we are, the start of the 2025 season, and I will tell you it’s a doozy this year. There’s a lot coming so pay attention. First, I would like to thank our exhibit sponsors, without their financial support we would be unable to bring traveling exhibits to the museum and the community. My sin - cere gratitude to: The Abbas Abdulhussein Family Lin Marinasio Bomar Construction Brown and Brown Insurance CiCi and Hyatt Brown Cobb Cole Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Expert Reserve Services Giles Electric Halifax Health ICI Homes John Hall Chevrolet NASCAR Jill Simpkins
Thank you so much. We couldn’t do this without you all. I would also like to ask our Board of Trustees. If you’re here please stand, wave your hand, and let everybody know you’re here in the room. We have a fantastic Board of Trustees. Thank you for everything you do, and to our dignitaries and civil servants, if you’re in the room, please raise your hand and let us acknowl - edge you this evening. So, developing and installing exhibits takes a lot of time and talent. This exhibit was curated in-house with the artist Ste - phen Shooster, who you will hear from shortly, and our team of highly capable cre - ative staff. My sincere gratitude and thank you to the amazing team that put this beau - tiful and very interesting exhibit together with Stephen; Tamara Joy, our chief cura - tor; Zack Zacharias, our Senior Curator of History; Jenelle Codianne, Director of De - sign; Stephanie Shaw, Registrar; Ryan Low - ry, Exhibitions Manager; Caleb Handlin, our Preparator; Seth Mayo, our Planetari - um Director and Curator of Science; Chris - tian Traverson, our Planetarium Manager and Assistant Curator of Science; and Katie Wedderstrand, our Planetarium Educator. This thing takes a village like you would not believe, so you guys, I know this was amazing and hard work, and it looks beauti - ful. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I have.
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