CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Students at a Southwest Side Catholic high school started using a new, cutting-edge $15-million science wing on this first day of the academic year.Marist High School principal Larry Tucker proudly shows off 10 new science labs in Monastery Hall, so named because the science wing used to be the monastery that housed as many as 35 brothers.The wing includes a planetarium designed and installed by Spitz, a company used by the Adler Planetarium. The 30-seat space allows Marist to provide students with a curriculum developed by one of the leading astronomy educators in the country, Dr. David Bradstreet.
On Thursday morning, students in one class looked overhead as the teacher changed the view of Thursday’s actual sky into what it would look like Thursday night.
"We are all very spoiled," she said.