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  • SMAS Outreach to rural schools and beyond

    Posted on March 30th, 2014 Lynn Powers No comments

    Joe Witherspoon is the new SMAS Vice President this year, he is also the committee head for SMAS Outreach.  This past week, March 24-28th, Joe worked with the Sheridan Montana public school and conducted a week of activities.  Solar observing and dark sky observing, walking out The Earth is a Peppercorn to show size and distance, plus many more fun activities to engage the young students.

    In June, Joe will work with a group of 11-13 year olds from over seas who are visiting the Big Sky country.  He said they will make planispheres, watch a green laser constellation tour, then view stars in a dark sky setting.  Most of these students live in a large city and have not seen a dark sky.

    Lynn Powers is working with the Arrowhead K-8 school in the Paradise Valley.  For the April total lunar eclipse, students there wanted to mark the occasion with a science night. The event will showcase the science fair, guest speakers, activities and viewing the eclipse.  Students from the Bozeman High School Astronomy club will be judges for the science fair and help with the telescopes

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