February 15, 2013

ARC Science’s globes reflect dreamer’s sense of wonder

As an 11-year-old boy, Tom Ligon got hooked on space. He would gaze into the night sky and wonder about the mysteries of the universe. As the founder and chief product developer for ARC Science Simulations Inc. of Loveland, he has been able to share his passion for the solar system with millions of museum visitors throughout the world.

Ligon is the dreamer, designer and programmer behind ARC’s family of OmniGlobes, spherical digital displays of Earth. In Colorado, they can be seen at such locations as Denver Botanical Gardens, in the Science Department at Colorado State University and in the…

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