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Bob Rogers
For other persons also named Bob Rogers see Bob Rogers (disambiguation).

Bob Rogers is Founder and Chairman of BRC Imagination Arts — "experience designers," planners, and producers for museums, visitor centers and commercial
, founder and chief executive officer of BRC BRC Black Rock City (Burning Man)
BRC British Retail Consortium
BRC Business Resource Center (Small Business Administration)
BRC Bisexual Resource Center
BRC Black Radical Congress
 Imagination Arts, has been selected as this year's THEA The´a

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 Lifetime Achievement Award.

The award honors achievement, talent and personal excellence within the themed entertainment and experience design industry and is presented by TEA, a Burbank-based not for profit association representing the themed entertainment industry.

Rogers has spent nearly 40 years in the industry and has led projects at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum looks at the life of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln, and the course of the American Civil War. Combining traditional scholarship with 21st century showmanship techniques, the popular museum continues to draw people from , The Walt Disney Co., General Motors, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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, the Texas State History Museum and the U.S. Pavilion at the 2005 World's Fair in Japan.

Rogers has a reputation as one of the world's most innovative and insightful creators of educational visitor experiences.

The THEA Lifetime Achievement Award is the latest among the more than 250 international awards garnered by Burbank-based BRC over 25 years, with eleven previous THEA Awards for Outstanding Achievement.

Past THEA Lifetime Achievement recipients have been Harrison "Buzz" Price, the economic feasibility science inventor of the themed entertainment industry; Marty Sklar, of Walt Disney Imagineering; John Hench, a Walt Disney Imagineer Imagineer may refer to:
  • Imagineer, a Japanese video game developer and publisher that should not too be confused with Imagineering, a now-defunct video game developer from New Jersey.
  • Imagineers, the employees of Walt Disney Imagineering.
 and master art director for 65 years; and Yves Pepin, creator of world expositions, special events and international event spectaculars including the Millennium firework celebration at the Eiffel Tower.

The award will be presented during the THEA Awards gala March 3, 2007 in Anaheim.
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