Alachua Astronomy Club: Florida Gym

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Directions to Florida Gym

Fla Gym Houses College of
Health & Human Performance
(Click for picture) Florida Gym was renovated during the middle 1990's. The Florida Gym houses the University of Florida's College of Health and Human Performance, the old gym facilities, new classrooms, and six, modern, multimedia lecture halls (seating just over one hundred each). These new lecture halls were originally part of the old bleacher sections of the gym. (The gym still remains.) Computers, slide projectors, and video machines display their sights and sounds on a large screen at the front and though speakers around the room. The computers are also directly tied into the Internet so the World Wide Web can be brought directly into the lecture halls! (See directions and map below.)

The Department of Astronomy uses one of the six lecture halls (Room 280) to teach sections of its basic astronomy course, AST 1002: Discovering the Universe.

Location of Florida Gym

[Lat. 29°38.9'N, Long. 82°20.8'W]
Stadium Road Immediately East of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
On The University of Florida Campus

[Locator Map]

Important: Also see note on parking

Directions to Lecture Halls in the Florida Gym:

Easiest access to the lecture halls is by the East Side Entrance.
Walk to middle of east side of building (opposite side from stadium).
Go up outside steps on east side. (You are now on the second floor.)
All six main lecture halls can be accessed through central corridors on second floor. See map for room locations.
The corridors for all six lectures are elevated above the second floor levels by several steps.

For the Physically Challenged:

Florida Gym contains multiple entrances suitable for wheelchairs.
See map for locations of some of these entrances.
The corridors for all six lectures are elevated above the second floor levels.
There are wheel chair lifts at the north end of both sets of lecture hall corridors (see map).

Important Note: Parking for Florida Gym

Several small parking lots surround Florida Gym.
These include some spaces for handicapped parking.
These lots are often filled on weekday evenings when classes are in session.
(Handicapped parking spaces near the Gym are normally not be filled.)
Closest available, visitor parking will probably be the O'Connell Parking Lot west of the Stadium (see map).
Visitors should arrive early in order to find suitable parking. Allow about ten minutes to walk to Florida Gym if you park in the O'Connell Parking Lot.
If coming from O'Connell Parking Lot, walk around northeast side of stadium, down the steps, and climb steps at Northwest corner of Florida Gym to second floor (see map).

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