USF Poly buys sci-fi figures to spark creativity

Posted Nov 8, 2011 by Lindsay Peterson

Updated Nov 8, 2011 at 02:53 PM

If you want to get a look at USF Polytechnic’s life-sized sci-fi figures, the subject of a story in today’s Tampa Tribune, they’re at Poly’s Blue Sky East business incubator in Winter Haven.

The Captain Kirk chair was appraised at $2,200.

Up until recently they’ve been in Poly administrators’ offices.

And if you want to see the memo from finance director Josh Bresler justifying the $10,000 purchase of the four figures, go here.

It was an effort to be more like the Google Creative Lab space, including “the purposeful creation of ‘think spaces’ that resemble English telephone booths,” Bresler wrote.